...emphasis on the mind. He is going to join mind and hand in an equal endeavour. As he says in Aphorisms 2: "Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and help that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand." Similar...

...with the argument that true knowledge is acquired only by a close intercourse with things themselves. "Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...much wanted for the understanding as for the hand" (Novum Organum 1.2). Knowledge is to be acquired by active experimentation, and ultimately evaluated...

...which belie the distinctions made later by both philosophy of science and philosophy of technology: Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.38 Condensed here is the recognition that science gains both its knowledge and its power from...

...but often "neither the INTEGRA ET AB OMNIBVS 14 Vesalius's illustration of human arteries and veins. naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps [for the mind] that the work is done." The mind must guard against preconceived ideas if observations...

...union of the experimental and rational faculties."19 Moreover, in Novum Organum, Bacon warned that neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand . . . give motion to guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply better suggestions for the understanding...

...with the argument that true knowledge is acquired only by a close intercourse with things themselves: "Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...much wanted for the understanding as for the hand" (Novum Organum 1.2). Knowledge is to be acquired by active experimentation and ultimately evaluated...

...the Historiography of Science IN THE second aphorism of the Novum Organum Francis Bacon argued that "neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions"1 In this aphorism Bacon identified two wants of natural philosophy — a new method for investigating...

...instrumental reason in a world rationally redirected towards the conquest and utilization of nature: "Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand."21 But, Bacon complains, these instruments are lacking for the understanding because of the prevalence...

...absolutely on forces other than his own, and on instruments which superseded his senses. Bacon foretold it: 'Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left...much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done.'20 Once done, the mind resumed its illusion, and society forgot its impotence; but no one better...

...Computing Sciences (http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/ ezequiel/alife-page/alife.html/). Ted Kaehler Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. —Francis Bacon The reason we are on a higher imaginative level is not because we have finer imagination,...