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Bacon's Novum Organum, titled against Aristotle's. Descartes finds certainty in the reasoning mind. The Royal Society takes the motto Nullius in verba — on no one's word.
In plain words
Bacon writes against Aristotle, Descartes finds certainty in the reasoning mind, and the Royal Society takes the motto “on no one's word.” Both books are releases that leave the chair occupied: what can be known moves from revelation to the method, and to the mind that runs it.
The mechanism
THE NEW SEAT WRITES ITS CHARTER — both books are releases, and neither leaves the chair empty. What could be known had been grounded in revelation; from here it is grounded in the method, and in the mind that runs it
How it was checked
- EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture; a release
- Letter eraTHE RELEASES, AND THE ENCLOSURE THAT FOLLOWS EACH 1382 to 1694
- Plate — Francis Bacon, Instauratio Magna, title page, London, 1620 · Huntington Library copy · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Instauratio_Magna_1620.jpg
- SourcesPRIMARY DOCUMENT — the texts and the motto
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