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Novum Organum

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[noh-vuhm awr-guh-nuhm, awr-gah-nuhm, -gan-uhm, noh-woom ohr-gah-noom] / ˈnoʊ vəm ˈɔr gə nəm, ɔrˈgɑ nəm, -ˈgæn əm, ˈnoʊ wʊm ˈoʊr gɑˌnum /

noun

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


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The 340 years that have passed since Novum Organum have seen far more scientific change than all the previous 5,000 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Mr. Ford knew more history he might know that Bacon's Novum Organum was also picked to outlive the Bible.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few people, he believes, would read Bacon's Novum Organum, for example, unless they had the latest Agatha Christie concealed inside.

From Time Magazine Archive

And whoever reads the sixth part of the Opus Majus, upon experimental science, must be struck by it as the prototype, in spirit, of the Novum Organum.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

It has been said, that in the constructing of Shakespeare’s Dramas there is, apart from all other ‘faculties’ as they are called, an understanding manifested, equal to that in Bacon’s Novum Organum.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones

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