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Title: Novum organum or, True suggestions for the interpretation of nature
Author: Francis Bacon
Editor: Joseph Devey
Release date: June 15, 2014 [eBook #45988]
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Language: English
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NOVUM ORGANUM
BY
LORD BACON
EDITED BY JOSEPH DEVEY, M.A.
[Illustration: Publisher's logo]
NEW YORK
P. F. COLLIER & SON
MCMII
SCIENCE
NOVUM ORGANUM
OR
TRUE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE
PREFACE
They who have presumed to dogmatize on nature, as on some well investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philosophy and le…