 | Brigid Hains - 2002 - 272 pagina’s
...& strange and unreal but very homely' — McLean diary, 16 January 1913. For like as a man's nature is never well known or proved till he be crossed nor...more clearly under the trials and vexations of art [techne] than when left to herself.3' It was the expert — the scientist or technician — who held... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 pagina’s
...like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shape till he was straitened and held fast, so Nature exhibits...more clearly under the trials and vexations of art (mechanical devices) than when left to herself." The contrast between Bacon's attitude towards nature... | |
 | Alexandra Lembert, Alexandra Lembert-Heidenreich - 2004 - 278 pagina’s
...will. Another representative, Francis Bacon, propagated a violent and merciless treatment of nature: For like as a man's disposition is never well known...held fast, so nature exhibits herself more clearly 181 Ted Hughes' poem Cave Birds: An Alchemical Drama (1978) is the story of a protagonist who, like... | |
 | Steven Sloman - 2005 - 226 pagina’s
...determining the point in question." Bacon thought an experiment was akin to torturing nature for its secrets: "For like as a man's disposition is never well known...the trials and vexations of art than when left to herself."2 An experiment requires manipulation. Some variable, some potential cause (often called an... | |
 | Phil Dowe - 2005 - 220 pagina’s
...views are given away by the feminine metaphors he sometimes uses to talk about nature, such as this: For like as a man's disposition is never well known...proved till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shape till he was straitened and held fast, so nature exhibits herself more clearly under the trials... | |
 | David Inglis, John Bone, Rhoda Wilkie - 2005 - 480 pagina’s
...scientific method, perceived nature as a witch whose secrets had to be extracted by force. He wrote: For like as a man's disposition is never well known or proved till he be crossed, nor Proteus never changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast, so nature exhibits herself more clearly... | |
 | Iddo Landau - 2010 - 192 pagina’s
...idea further with an analogy to the torture chamber" (Death of Nature, 169), citing the following: For like as a man's disposition is never well known...more clearly under the trials and vexations of art [mechanical devices] than when left to herself. (Merchant's emphases) Soble shows, however, that nature... | |
 | Muriel Lederman, Ingrid Bartsch - 2001 - 524 pagina’s
...arts upon interrogatories."1 Bacon pressed the idea further with an analogy to the torture chamber: "For like as a man's disposition is never well known...shapes till he was straitened and held fast, so nature exhihits herself more clearly under the trials and vexations o( art [mechanical devices] than when... | |
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For like as a man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held fast ; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials and... 
