...explains to barbarians from Europe, "is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Already, in this South Pacific enchantment, the Salomonic wizards have invented microscopes, telescopes,...

...college, 'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible'. The idea of human empire was a major ideal and legitimizing concept in modern Europe, especially as...

...the "lanthorn" of the kingdom. We are specifically told that the end of the foundation includes the "enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." 32 Science is pervasive. The scientists decide which experiments and inventions to reveal to the public...

...Bacon's New Atlantis, the technologists of "Solomon's House" were charged with, among other things, "enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." And Descartes speaks in analogous terms about the possibility of attaining knowledge useful to life...

...visitors, "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible."^ What Bacon foresaw, wrote historian Theodore Roszak, was the possibility that "given sufficient technological...

..."The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the cnlarging of the bounds of human empire. to the effecting of all things possible" (Bacon 1825, S. 364f.). Tatsächlich entwirft Bacon ein für die erste Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts...

...example, that the announced practical aim of modern science according to Bacon's New Atlantis ("enlarging the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible") and Descartes' Discourse on Method ("rendering ourselves as masters and possessors of nature") implies...

...Conclusions The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes, and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. Sir Francis Bacon: New Atlantis (1627). Inverse modelling of the atmospheric transport of trace constituents...

...JIlumination his "philosopher-kings" seek through their experiments of light leads to fruit in the "enlarging of the bounds of Human empire to the effecting of all things possible," the "possible" including "coagulations, indurations, refrigerations, and conservations for producing...

...located somewhere in the Pacific, "is the knowledge of causes, and the secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." It was an intoxicating idea. Yet events soon suggested that the attempt to realize Bacon's vision has...