 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 144 pagina’s
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 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 212 pagina’s
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 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2006 - 256 pagina’s
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 | 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... 
