VALERIUS TERMINUS: OF THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE

(by Sir Francis Bacon)





The first chapter of VALERIUS TERMINUS by Francis Bacon

An annotated version compiled and edited by Dr. Gisela Engel (Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main with the assistance of Dr. Harvey Wheeler
(Ret. USC, Martha Boas Distinguished Research Professor at USC) and aided by
Melek Hasgün, Simone Wirthmann, Antje Peters, Martina Glebocki, Carsten Jägler,
Katja Morawek, Cora Hartmann (students at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet
Frankfurt am Main).


Orignal Text | Annotations
|
Valerius Terminus: |
Of the Interpretation{1} of Nature | 1A.
| The word "interpretation" occurs
| also e.g. in the title of the essay
| DE INTERPRETATIONE NATURAE PROEMIUM
| (1603; in Spedding vol. III) and in
| his definition of man as "the servant
| and interpreter of Nature" (IV,47).