Novum Organum

American  

[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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

Milton and Ben Jonson were still alive; Bacon's Novum Organum was just coming out; and in thirty or forty years you could have had L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Paradise Lost; Newton's Principia, too, in 1687.

From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Rawley speaks of the "Novum Organum" as having been in hand for twelve years.

From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.