A preparatory to the history natural & experimental : written originally in Latine by Francis Lord Verulam ... and now faithfully rendered into English / By a well-wisher to his Lordships writings.
- Francis Bacon
- Date:
- 1670
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A preparatory to the history natural & experimental : written originally in Latine by Francis Lord Verulam ... and now faithfully rendered into English / By a well-wisher to his Lordships writings. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![aphorisms Concerning the Compofure of this firft HISTORY APHORISM. / ' The divifion of I is iituate in a threefold fiiate, and doth, as it were^ . ^ * *♦> undergo a triple. Government: For either llie is at liber- U/je Natural t ® ty, anchcarries her fclf according to her ordinary courfe 3 % 1^1 orlbeisdifturb’d and thruft from herftate bytheviti- S ^ ^ t oufnefs and infolency of the Matter^ and by the violence T of Impediments: Or ll]e’is contained and framed by Humane Operation. Now the firft of thefe Conditions relates to the Species of things 5 the fecond to Movers; the third to Aru0aIs: Votin things eftedied by ArtNature receives the yoke from Humane Domimon ; for thofe things vvould never have been made without Man : but through the labour and operation ot Man, I there feems to be quite a Inew frameof Bodies,^and, as it were, another Univerfality of things, or another Theatre. Thre.efqid therefore is the ]NaturdHillorj^ for it treates of either the or the or the ]Bandso^ Nature: So that we may not unfitly divide it into a, Hiftory or l‘G(/ieratio}isy Preter pencractons•i2ivA Artsthe laft whereof weufetonomi- mate alfo Mechanical an4 ExperimentaL Nor do we give in precept, that thefe three be treated of Severally f for why may not Relations, of Mon- ftcrs, in their feveral kinds, be joyned to the Hiftory of; thQ Species them- fclves > And Artificials are fometimes rightly joyned with the^ Species, but fomctimes they do better apart : Wherefore it is beft to deal with thefe thiiias according as the matter will bear it > fo^i Method dpph equally caufe repetitions ai)d prolixity, as well where there |s too much, as where I there is none of itatalhrr . e.ji. i > . A- IL ' This Natural BiBcru mt is threefold in its fubjea fas before we have told you) fort is twofold in its ufe,?' for it is ufed either for thefoare knowledge of'thofe things which are therein contained 5 cipal ana firft itiatter fubftanc^ or ftuff (if I may ^ fo fay) of- the true Ai^ this laft ufe: of it is now intended The twofold ufe of the Natural Hi¬ ftory. nowv](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30343161_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
