| Tom Shachtman - Science - 2000 - 275 pages
..."knowledge of Causes, and the secret motion of things," and to use what they learned for "the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Three Puzzles and a Solution WHAT KAMERLINGH ONNES AND his fellow tUIT1-of-thecentury researchers did... | |
| Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 780 pages
..."The end of the foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." The House's scientific research has led to the development of submarines and flying machines. Streams,... | |
| Thomas Fröhlich - China - 2000 - 416 pages
...»The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.« 30 28 So bei SAAGE, Politische Utopien der Neuzeit, S. 151-233; oder LÜBBE, Der Lebenssinn der Industriegesellschaft,... | |
| Anthony Gottlieb - Philosophy - 2000 - 490 pages
...investigators whose goal would be 'the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible'. Some forty years later, Bacon's proposal led to the establishment of the Royal Society, whose members... | |
| Margaret Cavendish - Fiction - 2000 - 340 pages
...charged with investigating "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." New Atlantis was probably written in 1624, although it was published unfinished by William Rawley in... | |
| David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...The End of Our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. New Atlantis (1627) 1965:447. Walter Bagehot 1826-1877 British economic and political writer 1 I fear... | |
| Dennis Smith - Social Science - 2001 - 212 pages
...'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible'. The idea of human empire was a major ideal and legitimizing concept in modern Europe, especially as religious... | |
| Richard Saage - Utopian socialism - 2001 - 262 pages
..."The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the cnlarging of the bounds of human empire. to the effecting of all things possible" (Bacon 1825, S. 364f.). Tatsächlich entwirft Bacon ein für die erste Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts... | |
| Howard B. White - History - 1968 - 286 pages
...imperialism of the human mind, and we are told that the purpose of Solomon's House is the "enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible," 60 it is also true that the empire of the mind encompasses the empire of weapons. Bacon's uncanny vision... | |
| Michele Borrelli - Education - 1995 - 420 pages
...della ricerca scientifica, "is the knowledge of causes, and secret motion of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible" (4). E l'adempimento di tali scopi è cosi constatò in senso più ampio e lungimirante il preilluminista... | |
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