 | Tom Shachtman - 2000 - 272 pagina’s
...to determine previously hidden properties and causes. Bacon supported such experiments, arguing that "nature exhibits herself more clearly under the trials and vexations of art [forced experimentation 1 than when left to herself," since nature was like Proteus, the mythical creature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 534 pagina’s
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 | Colin Howson - 2003 - 261 pagina’s
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 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 pagina’s
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 | M. Lussier - 2000 - 220 pagina’s
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 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 263 pagina’s
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 | Brigid Hains - 2002 - 219 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... | |
 | Shankar Raman - 2001 - 389 pagina’s
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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... 
