200,576 research outputs found
'Beyond, both the Old World, and the New': Authority and Knowledge in the works of Francis Bacon, with special reference to the New Atlantis
No full textPhDThis study investigates the role of authority in the works of Francis Bacon,
arguing that the issue of authority provides not only an interpretation of New
Atlantis, but an important structural component of his body of works. From
the first manifestation of his philosophical project to his last works of natural
history, authority is an all-pervasive issue - the authority of nature, of
scripture, of the named author, and how authority functions in the
dissemination of natural knowledge. Chapter one argues that the publication
of New Atlantis alongside Sylva sylvarum in 1626/7 was more the result of
William Rawley's need to assert his own authority as the protector and
disseminator of Bacon's textual legacy than an appreciation of the work's own
qualities. Chapter two considers Bacon's views of history and time,
suggesting that Bacon not only conceived of a new, progressive mode of
historical time which would allow for the assertion of a textual authority based
on the records of a civilisation unbroken by the vicissitudes of time, but that
he figured these theories in New Atlantis. Chapter three argues that Bacon
used theology both as defence and imperative to his intellectual programme,
while his attempt to move beyond the deterministic, Calvinist world-view to
allow for multiple possible futures, or `chance': Bacon could then present
experiment as the way of eliminating chance, in order to accelerate the rate of
new discovery. Chapter four investigates Bacon's manipulations of textual
authority, from the early rehearsals of the Instauratio magna to the
performance of reliability in print in Sylva sylvarum. Finally, the afterword
seeks to suggest that the New Atlantis hinges on the issues of authority with
which Bacon engaged throughout his career and writings: in the issue of
authority, Francis Bacon found the beginning and the end of his philosophy
Verdade e método em Francis Bacon
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia.Estudo sobre o método e o conceito de verdade defendido por Francis Bacon, sendo nossos principais objetivos nesse trabalho: a) esclarecer algumas questões relativas ao método baconiano, principalmente no que se refere ao uso de hipóteses; b) apresentar uma interpretação falibilista da teoria de Francis Bacon, mostrando que a verdade e a utilidade são finalidades interdependentes em sua filosofia
Bacon : la nouvelle Atlantide
No full text178 p., ref. bib. : 4 p.1/2Francis Bacon (1560-1626), philosophe et homme politique, auteur de Du progrès et de la promotion des savoirs et du Novum Organum, laissa à sa mort une Atlantide inachevée, que son chapelain s'empressa de publier. La Nouvelle Atlantide : le rêve d'une société par et pour la science ; le premier tracé - utopique - de ce qu'on nommera plus tard l'Etat-providence ; une île des mers du Sud où se combinent les souvenirs de l'Ancien Testament et le projet d'une épistémologie neuve que Bacon cherchait à promouvoir ; une description de parcs zoologiques qui semble inaugurer la science-fiction ; une fête de la Famille où l'on vénère un père prolifique tandis que la mère reste cachée... Le philosophe qui avait pensé une organisation collective de la recherche en déclinerait ici les attendus éthiques, politiques et surtout imaginaires
Bacon's new map of Afghanistan, Beloochistan &c. [cartographic material].
No full textMap of Afghanistan, Baloochistan (Baluchistan) and east Persia (Iran) with relief shown by hachures.; Prime meridian: Greenwich.; Probably from: New complete atlas of the world / George Washington Bacon. London, [1887?]; NUC, pre 1956, v. 29, p. 481.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm227
Endogenous N-nitroso compounds, and their precursors, present in bacon, do not initiate or promote aberrant crypt foci in the colon of rats
No full textProcessed meat intake is associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer. This association may be explained by the endogenous formation of N-nitroso compounds (NOC). The hypothesis that meat intake can increase fecal NOC levels and colon carcinogenesis was tested in 175 Fischer 344 rats. Initiation was assessed by the number of aberrant crypt foci (ACF) in the colon of rats 45 days after the start of a high-fat bacon-based diet. Promotion was assessed by the multiplicity of ACF (crypts per ACF) in rats given experimental diets for 100 days starting 7 days after an azoxymethane injection. Three promotion studies were done, each in 5 groups of 10 rats, whose diets contained 7%, 14%, or 28% fat. Tested meats were bacon, pork, chicken, and beef. Fecal and dietary NOC were assayed by thermal energy analysis. Results show that feces from rats fed bacon-based diets contained 10-20 times more NOC than feces from control rats fed a casein-based diet (all p < 0.0001 in 4 studies). In bacon-fed rats, the amount of NOC input (diet) and output (feces) was similar. Rats fed a diet based on beef, pork, or chicken meat had less fecal NOC than controls (most p < 0.01). No ACF were detected in the colon of bacon-fed uninitiated rats. After azoxymethane injection, unprocessed but cooked meat-based diets did not change the number of ACF or the ACF multiplicity compared with control rats. In contrast, the bacon-based diet consistently reduced the number of large ACF per rat and the ACF multiplicity in the three promotion studies by 12%, 17%, and 20% (all p < 0.01). Results suggest that NOC from dietary bacon would not enhance colon carcinogenesis in rats
Bacon, L P, 62186
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/369500Surname: BACON
Given Name(s) or Initials: L P
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 62186
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 57245179581
Item: [2016.0049.01827] "Bacon, L P, 62186
Analyse de la philosophie du chancelier François Bacon, avec sa vie.
No full text"Essai sur la reine Elisabeth", v. 1, p. 199-225, is a translation of Bacon's In felicem memoriam Elizabethae."La vie de François Bacon", v. 1, p. 1-196, is a translation by Pouillot, of "The life of Francis Bacon" by David Mallet.Title vignettes.Mode of access: Internet
What role for nuclear power in Japan after Fukushima? A human security perspective
No full textThis chapter brings a human security lens to bear on the energy-mix question in post-Fukushima Japan. In particular, two of the four elements of human security identified in the 1994 Human Development Report (HDR), prevention and people-centeredness, are mobilized. We trace developments in Japan’s post-Fukushima nuclear politics through the demise of DPJ rule to the advent of the
LDP government, and evaluate the current nuclear energy strategy of the Abe administration. Using a human security framework, we consider the economic security dimension of the arguments for and against the use of nuclear power, and weigh the result of this consideration against a concern with the six other elements
of human security identified in the 1994 HDR. We conclude that the risks and threats to human security engendered by the use of nuclear energy outweigh any benefits that could reasonably be argued to accrue from its use. The notionof prevention, so central to the concept of human security, performs a further ‘trumping’ function, in leading us to put a premium on the downside risk of the use of nuclear energy
- …
