...part of the liberal arts, of the many crafts which have not yet grown into arts properly so called, so far as I have been able to examine them and as they...the primary elements of nature; such as Dense and Hare, Hot and Cold, Solid and Fluid, Heavy and Light, and several others. Then again, to speak of subtlety...

...vulgar as men may think it) count more upon this part" both for helps and safeguards than upon die other; seeing that the nature of things betrays itself...the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. Kor do I confine the history to Bodies ; but I have thought it my duty besides to make a separate history...

...forced out of her natural state, and s<jueezed and moulded.' And the reason why he does so is his belief 'that the nature of things betrays itself more readily...the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.' Even if Bacon, as many people after him, misjudged the function of experiments and regarded them as...

...when by art and the hand of man she is forced out of her natural state and squeezed and moulded . . . seeing that the nature of things betrays itself more...the vexations of art than in its natural freedom'. 119 Boyle as the follower of Bacon: cf. Jones pp. 169-70 for a series of quotations in which Boyle...

...relationships with women. And this modelling was advanced as a reason to value science. According to Bacon, 'the nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.'6 The discipline of scientific knowledge, and the mechanical inventions it leads to, do not...

...ot the Baconian domination science that studies "nature under constraint and vexed," on the premise that "the nature of things betrays itself more readily...the vexations of art than in its natural freedom" (Bacon I960. 25)? Indeed, domination is so much the overriding objective of the research Jordan describes...

...It is experiment that actually deals with Nature as an "artificially devised" (p. 26) construct, for "the nature of things betrays itself more readily...the vexations of art than in its natural freedom" (p. 29). The experiment as a contrived question depends on two basic operations of human understanding:...

...that result in deformed creatures. Third, there is nature in "bonds," transformed by human art; and "seeing that the nature of things betrays itself more...the vexations of art than in its natural freedom," this last condition is the most auspicious of all for the increase of scientific knowledge. The experiments...

...the experiments in which nature is submitted to the violence of human arts will be promoted, since "the nature of things betrays itself more readily...the vexations of art than in its natural freedom" (IV, 29). By doing this, arts dispel the mist of appearances and urge the understanding to disclose...

...subduing, in shaking her to her foundations, we do not so much transform Nature as reveal her, for "the nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art" (meaning practical, or mechanical, art) "than in its natural freedom" (Anderson 1960, p. 25). But Bacon's...