Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Bibliography xliii
6. Biographical Notes on Persons Cited or Mentioned by Joseph de Maistre xlvii
7. A Note on the Text lix
8. Abbreviations lxiii
9. Logic and Natural Sciences
10. Novum Organum, or New Instrument Induction and Syllogism 5
11. Of Experiment and of the Genius of Discoveries 37
12. Continuation of the same Subject 52
13. Of Essences and of their Definitions 65
14. Cosmology and the System of the World 1 74
15. The Ebb and Flow of the Seas 87
16. Motion 91
17. Natural History and General Physics 1 96
18. Optics - The Progression of Light 102
19. Experiments and Physical Explanations 111
20. Meteorology 127
21. The General Goal of Bacon's Philosophy 139
22. Metaphysics
23. Of God and Intelligence 157
24. Of the Soul 172
25. Of the Origin of Spontaneous Motion and of Motion in General 181
26. Of the Senses and of the Sensible Principle 195
27. Of Matter and of the Principle of Things 204
28. Final Causes 235
29. The Union of Religion and Science 270
30. Bacon's Religion 292
31. Bacon Judged by his Translator - Conclusion 307
32. Index 321