# Novum organum

Author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626; Devey, Joseph, 1823-1897 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Science - Physics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45988

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Novum+organum+Bacon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 learning. For they have tended to stifle and interrupt inquiry exactly in proportion as they have prevailed in bringing others to their opinion: and their own activity has not counterbalanced the mischief they have occasioned by corrupting and destroying that of others. They again who have entered upon a contrary course, and asserted that nothing whatever can be known, whether they have fallen into this opinion from their hatred of the ancient sophists, or from the hesitation of their...

## Chapters

- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/novum-organum-45988/chapters/23/index.md)