NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scholasticism, Conspiracy Theory, Giambattista Della Porta
27 Nov 2017
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Lecture three science and magic/science and secrets. Francis bacon (1561 1626: he describes his tutors at cambridge (cid:498)men of sharp wits, shut up in their cells if a few authors, chiefly aristotle, their dictator(cid:499) Soloman"s house bacon images this as a place ( mixture of university, laboratory and. Son of a very high ranking noble under elizabeth the first (rules of shakespeare) Practical, bakery, instruments of war, pots, bread ovens. He believes that it should be useful to the government (useful for one government then useful for another) Torture nature in order to reveal her secrets (an attack on scholasticism) Scholasticism: founded in the study of aristotle (under aristotle, you observe nature) Under aristotle scientia (something you possess) Something you possess to science is something is done ( a practical activity) They record what they did and what happened (not a theoretical experiment, a practical take on it) For popularizing (saying this is method for the natural world)
