Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Part 2 is the _Novum Organum Scientiarum_, or new method of studying

the sciences, a name probably suggested by Aristotle’s _Organon_ (treatises on Logic). He intended it to be “the science of a better and more perfect use of reason in the investigation of things and of the true end of understanding.” This has been generally denominated the _inductive method_, i. e. the experimental...