Science

Francis Bacon

1561 to 1626, London, England

Knowledge is power, and the new method of science.

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Lessons

The Wrong Instrument

Why two thousand years of rigorous logic discovered nothing new about nature.

The Mind’s False Mirror

Why the mind is a warped mirror, and the four idols that bend it.

Weights, Not Wings

How three tables and ruthless exclusion wrung the secret of heat from nature.

A Factory of Knowledge

What a society looks like when it takes the pursuit of knowledge seriously.

The Price of Mastery

A prophet without a laboratory: what his programme won, and what it cost.

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