...they have neglected the very first aphorism of CH. lit.] History of Economics 161 Bacon — " Man, the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and...observed in fact or in thought of the course of Nature," and " neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can do much. It is by instruments...

...did not underrate the forces of reason and even applauded the advance of science but pointed out that "man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...do and understand so much, and so much only, as he had observed, in fact or in thought, of the course of Nature; beyond this he neither knows anything...

...understood within the context of the reversal with which Bacon begins the New Organon s first book: "Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and only so much [as] he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature, . . . [for] Nature...

...the Industrial Revolution, and giving an empirical impetus to Hobbes, Locke, and John Stuart Mill: Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of Nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. . . . Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the course...

...over literary discourse by claiming a referential connection to reality that literature does not have: "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature,...the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything" (28). According to Bacon, knowledge, or scientia, comes from observation,...

...the interpretation of nature and the kingdom of man I. Man heing the servant and interpreter of namre can do and understand so much and so much only as he has ohserved in fact or in thought of the course of namre: heyond this he neither knows anything nor can...

...not. With regard to the understanding of nature, according to Bacon, man can understand only what man has "observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature." Bacon adds that neither the bare hand nor the understanding is worth very much of itself.47 That implies,...

...into "rules" is most accurately understood in the dialectic between the first and fourth aphorisms: "Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything" and "Towards the effecting of works, all that man can do is to put together...

...studying nature becomes big under the impact of things, and brings forth a teeming brood of errors.' Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature can...observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature ... nature to be commanded must be obeyed.4 Bacon's persistent use of gendered and sexualised metaphors...

...Centuries' in RC Olby (ed.), Companion to the History of Modern Science (London, 1990), pp. 588-90. man being the servant and interpreter of Nature can...the course of Nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.128 Others investigating the natural world adopted the Neoplatonic explanation...