 | Sir William Hale-White - 1927 - 64 pagina’s
...the rest of our latter chymists, would have been considerable " [43]. Sprat writes : " I shall only mention one Great Man who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprise, as it is now set on foot; and that is, the Lord Bacon . . . His Genius was searching and... | |
 | Joyce Oramel Hertzler - 1928 - 350 pagina’s
...first historian of the society writes in his 'History of the Royal Society'" (1667) 18 "I shall only mention one great Man who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this enterprise, as it is now set on foot, and that is Lord Bacon." 14 Joseph Glanvil, in his "Scepsis Scientifica"... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - 1970 - 188 pagina’s
...Society, wrote in 1667 in his History of the Royal Society concerning Bacon's foresight: "I shall only mention one great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprise [the new science of the Royal Society], as it is now set on foot; and that is, the Lord... | |
 | James Edward McClellan - 1985 - 456 pagina’s
...of the Royal Society (1667), emphasized this aspect of the Society's initial interest: I shall only mention one great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprize, as it is now set on foot; and that is the Lord Bacon . . . The Society has reduc'ed its... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 pagina’s
...(Dedication of Scepsis Scientifica to the Royal Society, 1665), also Bishop Thomas Sprat, 'I shall only mention one great man, who had the true imagination of the whole extent of this enterprize', History of the Royal Society (1667), 35. 13 'Ode to the Royal Society', in The Works of... | |
 | John Earman, John D. Norton - 1998 - 604 pagina’s
...perfection of the experimental approach to science, he turned to Bacon as a distinguished ancestor: I shall onely mention one great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprize, as it is now set on foot; and that is, the Lord Bacon. In whose Books there are every where... | |
 | Daniel Garber - 2001 - 354 pagina’s
...approach to science, it was Bacon to whom he turned as a distinguished ancestor. He writes, I shall onely mention one great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprize, as it is now set on foot; and that is, the Lord Bacon. In whose Books there are every where... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pagina’s
...commissioned History of that body (1667), duly praised Bacon as its inspiring figure, acknowledging that 'great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprize, as it is now set on foot'. If he had had his way, Sprat writes, 'there should have been... | |
 | Clifford Conner - 2005 - 572 pagina’s
...him as its inspirational beacon. Thomas Sprat, its first historian, identified "Lord Bacon" as the "one great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprize, as it is now set on foot." 23 In his "Ode to the Royal Society," the poet Abraham Cowley... | |
 | Laurence Gardner - 2007 - 458 pagina’s
...Royal Society gave it a focus and a symbol.34 Sprat emphasized the fact that 'Francis Bacon was the one great man who had the true imagination of the whole extent of this enterprise.' By the Georgian and Victorian eras, however, this had largely been forgotten. The English... | |
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I shall only mention one great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprise, as it is now set on foot; and that is, the Lord Bacon. 
