Re: Back to Bacon

1999-10-07 Thread Russell T. Hurlburt
Thom Brown wrote: According to one of my colleagues, the passage is from Francis Bacon's "Novum Organon" - at least that is a claim from someone who is very familiar with the text in the Anderson edition. I have looked through Novum Organum and its companions (Urbach and Gibson translation) and

Re: Back to Bacon

1999-10-06 Thread Thom Brown
According to one of my colleagues, the passage is from Francis Bacon's "Novum Organon" - at least that is a claim from someone who is very familiar with the text in the Anderson edition. Stephen Black wrote: I've now heard from Donald Simanek. He is unable to document the horse's teeth

Back to Bacon

1999-10-05 Thread Stephen Black
I've now heard from Donald Simanek. He is unable to document the horse's teeth passage which appears on his web page at http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/horse.htm and which he attributes to "Francis Bacon, 1592". As a result of my inquiry, he's advised me that he has now added a disclaimer. It