...playing of a verbal game. Obviously, our presentation is Baconian and we quote his first Aphorism: Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. However,...

...interpretation of empirical observation). For example, Bacon's first aphorism in the New Organon reads: Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. (Bacon 1985, 39) Instead, it seems to me that perpetuating the conception...

...New Organon TR. JAMES SPEDDING, ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS, AND DOUGLAS DENON HEATH Aphorisms Book One I . Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. 2. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect...

...case to investigate it empirically. In his celebrated essay Novum Organum [1620] Bacon (1960) wrote: Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature,...observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature, (p. 39) Such ideas paved the way for the exploration of the natural world and the great theories which...

...knowledge, no Dreamtime, and of course, no necessary intermediaries. Bacon comments that a human being 'can do and understand so much and so much only as...observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature' (New Organon, book 1: 1; in Bacon 1960: 39). And again, Descartes sees the individual and his perceptions...

...the interplay of knowledge and action, see also the first aphorism of Book 1 of the Novum Organum: "Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything" (4.47). 53. See in the Novum Organum (4.212) where Bacon faults Galileo...

...Nosum Organum, Aphorism I, in Philosophical Works, ed. JM Robertson (London: Routledge, 1905), p. 259: "Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything". The task is then not to frame "anticipations of Nature" (hypotheses)...

...The first aphorism of the work depicts man as at once "the servant and interpreter of nature," who "can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in thought or fact of the course of nature. . . ,"15 The human understanding must therefore conform to...

...own judgment. APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN [BOOK ONE] 1 Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature: Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. 2 Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect...

...statements of natural causes and laws derived by induction from scientific observation and experiment.' 1. Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. 2. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect...