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" Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole number, to consider of the former labours and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct new experiments, of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former. "
The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Philosophical works - Page 163
by Francis Bacon - 1857
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New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ...

Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 pages
...call dowry-men or Benefactors. "Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole number, . . . we have three that take care out of them to direct...Nature than the former. . . . These we call Lamps. "For our ordinances and rites, we have two very long and fair galleries: in one of these we place patterns...
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...diverse Meetings and Consults of our whole Number, to consider of the former Labours and Collections, we have Three that take care, out of them, to Direct...Experiments, of a Higher Light, more Penetrating into Nature then the Former. These we call Lamps. . . . For our Ordinances and Rites: We have two very Long, and...
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Even Odder Perceptions

Richard Langton Gregory - History - 1994 - 290 pages
...execute the experiments - called Inoculators. Lastly, apart from novices and apprentices, there are also Three that raise the former discoveries by experiments into greater observations, axioms and aphorisms. These we call Interpreters of Nature. [And] For every invention of value, we erect a statue...
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The Real History of the Rosicrucians

Edward Wait - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 320 pages
...consults of our whole number, to consider of the former labours and collections, we have three taking care out of them to direct new experiments of a higher...former. These we call lamps. We have three others that doe execute the experiments so directed and report them. These we call inoculators. Lastly, we have...
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The Cambridge Companion to Bacon

Markku Peltonen - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 406 pages
...165). After this general consultation, the next highest division takes over. These are the Lamps who "direct new experiments, of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former," and the Inoculators who "execute the experiments so directed, and report them" (III, 165). Finally,...
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The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration

John Earman, John D. Norton - Science - 1998 - 604 pages
...the Compilers and Benefactors, which experiments are then performed by three "Inoculators." Finally, "we have three that raise the former discoveries by...experiments into greater observations, axioms, and aphorisms. These we call Interpreters of Nature" (ibid., 274). In this way, Bacon's method for investigating...
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Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History

Marina Leslie - History - 1998 - 228 pages
...— the House of Salomon — where the three fellows they call "Lamps" look at the materials gathered "to direct new experiments of a higher light, more penetrating into nature than the former" (3.165). The governor of the Stranger's House compares Bensalemite commerce to European practice: "But...
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Selected Philosophical Works

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...diverse meetings and consultations of our whole number, to consider of the former labors and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct...experiments into greater observations, axioms, and aphorisms. These we call Interpreters of Nature. "We have also, as you must think, novices and apprentices,...
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Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science: Broken Lives and Organizational Power

Hilary Gatti - History - 2002 - 276 pages
...divers meetings and consults of our whole number, to consider of the former labours and collections, we have three that take care, out of them, to direct...These we call Inoculators. Lastly we have three that [after consultation with the whole body] raise the former discoveries by experiments into greater observations,...
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Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Margaret Cavendish - Fiction - 2000 - 340 pages
...diverse Meetings and Consults of our whole Number, to consider of the former Labours & Collections, we have Three that take care, out of them, to Direct...Former. These we call Lamps. We have Three others that doe Execute the Experiments so Directed, and Report them. These we call Inoculatours. Lastly, we have...
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