236 NOVUM ORGANUM. 



Primo enim paranda est Historia Naturalis et Experimenta- 

 lis, sufficiens et bona ; quod fundamentum rei est ; neque enim 

 iingendum 'aut excogitandum, sed inveniendum, quid natura 

 facial aut ferat. 



Historia vero Naturalis et Experimentally tarn varia est et / 



t intellectum confundat et disgr&Mt, nisi sistatur elf 



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 compareat ordme idoneo. Itaque formandae sunt labulae et 



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Coordmationes JLnstantiarum, tali modo et mstrucione u in 

 eas agere possit intellectus. 



Id quoque licet fiat, tamen intellectus sibi permissus et 

 sponte movens incompetens est et inhabilis ad opificium axio- 

 matum, nisi regatur et muniatur. Itaque tertio, adhibenda est 

 legitima et vera, quae ipsa Clavis est Interpretationis. 

 incipiendum autem est a fine, et retro pergendum ad reliqua. 1 



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Inquisitio Formarum sic procedit ; super naturam datam 

 primo facienda est comparentia 2 ad Intellectum omnium In- 

 stantiarum notarum, quae in eadem natura conyeniunt, per 

 matenas licet dissimillimas. Atque hujusmodi collectio facienda 

 est historice, absque contemplatione praefestina, aut. subtilitate 

 aliqua majore. Exempli gratia ; in inquisitione de Forma Calidi. 



Instantia convenientes in natura Calidi. 



1. Radii solis, praesertim aestate et meridie. 



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2. Radii solis reflexi et constipati, ut inter montes, aut per 

 parietes, et maxime omnium in speculis comburentibus. 



3. Meteora ignita. 



4. Fulmina comburentia. 



5. Eructationes flammarum ex cavis montium, etc. 



6. Flamma omnis. 

 1. Ignita solida. 



8. Balnea calida naturalia. 



vel per instrumenta, vel per graduum observationem peritam, vel per corporum pro- 

 portionatorum ex sensibilibus ad insensibilia indicationes, vel per alias vias ac substi- 

 tutiones, sit subveniendum." I suppose Bacon had now detei mined to transfer these to 

 the third ministration the ministratio ad Itationem; and to treat of them under the 

 heads adminicula et rectificatione* inductionis. See infra, 21. ; and observe that the 

 full exposition of the Instantia; supplement^ and Instantice persecantes (both of which 

 belong to the second of the two parts above mentioned) was reserved for the section 

 relating to the adminicula Inductionis. See 42, 43. </. S. 



1 i. e. Of this, which is the last (namely the method of interpretation by induction 

 |\ based on exclusions), we must speak first, and then go back to the other ministrations. 

 8 This is properly a law term, and is equivalent to " appearance" in such phrases as 

 " to enter an appearance," &c. It is also said to be used for the vadimonium given to 

 secure an appearance on an appointed day. See Ducangc in voc. 



