Rusu Doina-Cristina
Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Philosophy, PO Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Early Sci Med. 2012;17(1-2):112-33. doi: 10.1163/157338212x631800.
The natural histories contained in Francis Bacon's Historia naturalis et experimentalis seem to differ from the model presented in De augmentis scientiarum and the Descriptio globi intellectualis in that they are focused on the defining properties of matter, its primary schematisms and the spirits. In this respect, they are highly speculative. In this paper I aim to describe the Historia naturalis et experimentalis as a text about matter theory, the histories of which are ascending from what is most evident to the senses to what is least accessible to them. Moreover, the Latin natural histories are parts of a methodological procedure in which the provisional rules and axioms obtained in one history can be used as theoretical assumptions for another history, thereby permitting one to delve ever more profoundly into the structure of nature.
弗朗西斯·培根的《自然史与实验史》中所包含的自然史，似乎与《学术的进展》和《知识的球体描述》中呈现的模式有所不同，因为它们聚焦于物质的定义属性、其主要的图式和精神。在这方面，它们极具思辨性。在本文中，我的目的是将《自然史与实验史》描述为一部关于物质理论的文本，其历史是从感官最易感知的事物上升到最难触及的事物。此外，这些拉丁文的自然史是一种方法论程序的组成部分，在这个程序中，从一个历史中获得的临时规则和公理可以用作另一个历史的理论假设，从而使人们能够更深入地探究自然的结构。
