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...(1980), and earlier by Feyerabend (1970). Merchant refers to this passage from Bacon's De Dignitate: "For like as a man's disposition is never well known or proved till he be crossed, nor Proteus ever changes shapes till he is straitened and held fast, so nature exhibits herself more clearly under the...

...nature, which was conventionally understood as a woman. She quotes Bacon's famous words about experiment: For like as a man's disposition is never well known...the trials and vexations of art than when left to herself.14 This picture of nature as a passive (and female) figure to be tortured for human benefit...

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...true identity lay concealed under a variety of external shapes and forms until he was bound in chains: "So nature exhibits herself more clearly under the...trials and vexations of art than when left to herself." Bacon thought the best examples of this kind of experimentation took place in the workshops of craftsmen,...

...concerning causes and axioms than is hitherto attained. 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 variation of nature cannot appear so fully in the liberty of nature, as in the trials...

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...experimentelle Methode der Naturwissenschaften einer "Naturbefragung" als beinahe "inquisitorisch" kennzeichnet: "so nature exhibits herself more clearly under the...trials and vexations of art than when left to herself." (Bacon (1962), S. 298) 4^ Dieser auf die schon am Ende des letzten Jahrhunderts begründete Gestaltpsychologie...