title: Novum Organum (Classic Reprint)
author:  Francis Bacon 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: Latin
  						    	
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zlib_text: **Sir Francis Bacon,** ___**Novum Organum**_ __ **[1620]**
  
  **Edition used:**
  
  _Novum Organum,_ by Lord Bacon, ed. by Joseph Devey, M.A. (New York: P.F.
  Collier, 1902).
  
    * Author: Sir Francis Bacon
    * Editor: Joseph Devey
  
  **About this title:**
  
  Part of a larger but incomplete magnum opus in which Bacon demonstrates the
  use of the scientific method to discover knowledge about the natural world.
  Many of the examples in this volume concern the nature of heat and energy.
  
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   **SCIENCE**
  
   **NOVUM ORGANUM**  
   **OR**  
   **TRUE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE**
  
   **PREFACE**
  
  THEY who have presumed to dogmatize on nature, as on s