Novum Organum

[ noh-vuhm awr-guh-nuhm, awr-gah-nuhm, -gan-uhm; Latin noh-woom ohr-gah-noom ]

noun

1. a philosophical work in Latin (1620) by Francis Bacon, presenting an inductive method for scientific and philosophical inquiry.

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Bacon was 60 years of age when his "Novum Organum" was published.

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His fame, too, had been increased by the publication in 1620 of his most celebrated work, the Novum Organum.

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This division is represented, though only imperfectly, by the Novum Organum, particularly book ii.

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This supposition receives some support from the manner in which the fifth part is spoken of in the Novum Organum, i. 116.

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As a general description, the following passage from the Novum Organum, ii.

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