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Novum Organum

Francis Bacon · 1620 · translated by Basil Montagu

A "new instrument" to replace Aristotle’s logic: start from observations, hunt for the traps your own mind sets, and build up.

91,329 words · 51 pages · about 6 h 55 min of reading

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Lessons cite it by section numbers — for example §29. Those numbers appear in the margin as you read, so a citation and the page agree.

Contents

  1. Page 1 1,793 words

Book I

  1. Book I–34 1,503 words
  2. 35–48 1,573 words
  3. 49–60 1,681 words
  4. 61–66 2,212 words
  5. 67–71 1,530 words
  6. 72–77 1,833 words
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  8. 85–86 1,921 words
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  11. 102–109 1,590 words
  12. 110–117 1,725 words
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  14. 123–129 2,080 words
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Book II

  1. Book II–5 1,812 words
  2. 6–11 1,931 words
  3. 12 1,512 words
  4. 12 1,567 words
  5. 12–13 1,882 words
  6. 13–15 1,649 words
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