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Novum organum

by Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

5 chapters, about 80,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 1,700 words
2. APHORISMS--BOOK I 24,500 words
3. FOOTNOTES 1,200 words
4. APHORISMS--BOOK II 50,600 words
5. FOOTNOTES 2,300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Axiom
• Boyle's law
• Cremation
• Experiment
• Fire
• Fire (wuxing)
• Heat
• Nature (journal)
• Nature (philosophy)
• Root (linguistics)
• Scientism
• Sophist

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