INDEX Abel and Cain, types of contemplative and active Abridgments, condemned, 433 Abstract qualities, Bacon's view of, 16, 200, 221, Abstractions, spurious, 269 Danger of dwelling on, 303 Academics, the, 114 Academy, the later Platonic, 274, 277, 504 Acatalepsia, 114, 274, 277, 299 Acceleration of falling bodies, 506, and note Accident, discoveries originating in, 112-113, 221, 260, 282, 297, 447, 501, 831 Achelous, 845, 857 Achilles, 89, 838 Acids, effects of, 314 Acosta, quoted, 522 On the Milky Way, 696, note Acoustics, 455 Acratus, 450, 839 Acroamatic method, 531 Actæon and Pentheus, fable of, 834 Acting, use of, in education, 132, note; 560 Action and contemplation, 135, 564 sq. Actium, battle of, 611, 773 Adam, 247, 443 Adonis, 55 Admiralty Manual of Scientific Inquiry, 400, and note Aristotle, philosophy of, disliked by Bacon, 2, 26, 191, 209, 271, 285, 467, 650, 651, 690, 800, 850! On induction, 15 On analogies, 25, note On metaphysics, 27 On the sciences, 27, 271 His doctrine of the categories, 27-8 On the soul or spirit, 30, 493, note; 496, note On nature, 31, 32, 271, 427, note Authority of, 37, 55, 58, 191, 210, 278, 671 His spirit of contradiction, 93, 210, 274, 285, 458 His problems, 99, 467 Compared to the Sultans, 100, 274, 467, 649 On forms, 111, 443 On the Sophists, 115, 511 On Elenches, 117, 516 On Congruity, 120 On words, 121 On Plato, 532, note On Democritus, 126, 532 and note On Sophisms and Elenches, 129 On young men, 134, 146, 563, 575 On contemplative and active life, 135, 564 On virtue, 139, 147, 572, 577 On conversation, 143 On the affections, 144, 574 On custom, 145, 574-5 On bias, 145 Logic of, 178-9 On hasty opinion, 193 On axioms, 196 Attitude of, to sense, 211 On infinite divisibility, 266, nole Corrupted natural philosophy, 271, 288, 650 His view of induction, 14 sq., 220 His view of science, 15. (See also Scriptures and His view of his own method, 21, 204, 220, 246, Essential character of his philosophy, 24, 33 sq. His theology, 36-7, 45 Did not fulfil us own precepts, 37 Expurgates his works for Catholics, 50, note; 53, Magnitude and impossibility of his scheme, 215 Whether disposed to a secret teaching, 220 sq., States his aims, 241 sq., 246, 249, 251 sq. Did not claim to discover induction, 291, note note Anticipated modern theory of heat, 322 Bacon, Francis, continued. Did not understand the astronomical problem, Had not seen microscopes, 351, note Anticipated the Florentine experiment, 362 Opposed the Copernican system, 364, 375, 461, 223-4, 263-4 Bain marie, 382, note Bajazet, 758 Banks, 786 Baranzan, Bacon's letter to, 215, 413 Barentz, voyage of, 310, note Bark, effluvia of, 314, note Baths, in medicine, 107 Beauty, antitheta as to, 546 Method of, 225, 288 Instinct and skill of, 502, note Berengario, anatomical device by, 486, nole Berosus, on the moon, 675 Bettenham, Mr., quoted, 885 Bias, quoted, 164, 603, 879, 883 Biography, value of, 82, 84, 433 Bion, 755, 867, 884 Birds and animals, analogies between, 25 Births, monstrous, 336 Blaesus, 132, 560 Bodley, 216, 217 Bodies, motions of, 273, 305 Transmutation of, 302, 304-6 Body, human, mixed nature of, 103, 483 Relation of, to mind, 481 Boemund, 221 Boldness, antitheta as to, 554 Essay on, 748 Books, the most lasting momorials, 73-4 Boole, his Laws of Thought, 335, note Boeckh, quoted, 685, note; 686, note Bouguer, experiment by, 347, note Bouilhet, his ed. of Bacon, 16, note; 213, 229 note His criticism of Bacon, 29 On Bacon's proposed courts, 617, note Boussingault, cited, 309, note; 371, note Brahe, Tycho, Astronomy of, 671, 675, 681, note; Brain, Plato's view of, 103 Charges of against Bacon, 4-5, nole Brisquet, story of, 880 British Association, 400 Brodie, on vivisection, 487, note Browne, Dr., story of, 885-6 Sir T., 809 On the tides, 364, note Caesar, Julius, learning of, 43 Eloquence of, 46 Referred to, 49, 68, 140, 195, 479, 611, 767 Traits of, 69-71, 158, 594, 598, 601, 807, 875, Quoted, 78, 154, note; 155, 161, 162, 424, 544, Work of, On Analogies, 70, 122, note; 523, and Darkness at death of, 693 Cain and Abel, 744 Calculuses of inference, 335, note Calendar-glasses, 318, 328, 355 Calendar of Man's estate, called for, 99, 183, 195 Of doubts, need for, 100, 467 Of falsehoods and popular errors, called for, 467 Causes, continued. Kinds of, 302 sq. Classification of, 359-60 Physical, send men to God and Providence, 472 Caution, 159, 600 Cave, idols of the, 119, note; 199, 201, 224, 229, 239, 263-4, 268, 517 Plato's allegory of the, 119, 517 Caves, uses of, 378 Celestial bodies, proposed history of, 404, 430, 681 Celibacy, 743 Cells, in tissues, 334, note Celsus, on vivisection, 106, 486 On sects of physicians, 112 On knowledge of causes, 194, 276, 277, note; 501 Ceremonies, fortify the imagination, 495 Antitheta as to, 554 Ceremonies and Respects, essay on, 799 Chamberlain, John, letters of, 440, and note Chance, inventions made by, 112, 207, 221, 250 282, 292, 297, 447, 501, 831 Chancery, Court of, 619, note Chaos, myth of, 446, 639 sq., 647 sq., 839 sq. Charles, the Hardy, 768 Charles, of Sweden, 870-1 VIII, 263, note; 448 Chart, the human, 377 Referred to, 476, note Chastity, antitheta as to, 549, 743 Chemistry, backward state of, 277 Children and parents, essay on, 742 Chilon, quoted, 874, 883 Chinese, use of real characters by, 121, 282, 521, 522, note Characters of, for numbers, 275 Exclusiveness of, 720 Chiron, allegory of, 89 Chocolate, use of, in fasting, 729, note Christ, 64, 66, 105, 170, 482 Quoted, 64, 65, 93, 116, 147, 188, 210, 286, 45), Christianity, 102, 135, 481, 564. Sometimes turned against science, 205 Measure of liberty in, 633 sq. Cicero, letters of, to Atticus, 47, 579, 593 Quoted, 51, 59, 76, 84, 116, 131, 141, 149, 150, 164, 422, 502, 511, 524, 545, 560, 579, 611, 755, Stories of, 866, 867, 869 On Socrates, 101, 192, 478 Cult of, 54 Referred to, 114, 570, 580, 845 On Cæsar, 140, 543 On Augustus, 162 On eloquence, 192, 193, 511, 535, 789 Cicelo, Quintus, 580, note; 581 Cineas, story of, 880 Cioli, 735 Ciphers, kinds of, 123, 525 sq., 636 sq. Circle, demonstration in, 518 |