| the validity of the co-existence of Religion
| and Science.
|
| Bacon’s early experimental treatises--like
| Dense and Rare--are experimental and of
| limited value. Historians of the philosophy
| of science have little trouble in disposing
| these early experimentalist efforts of Bacon.
|
| His work on sound was somewhat better--
| experimental-theoretical. It is a
| post-pythagorean theory of harmonics and
| still not appropriately analyzed.
| Contemproary musicologists like to quote
| the passages on sound in NEW ATLANTIS
| for being compatible with today’s approach
| to music.
|
| By the time of the Novum Organum Bacon
| was seeking a more "general theory of
| science." Its 'logic machine' (Hooke) was
| designed to be relevant to all
| non-theological domains.
|
| However, most Bacon interpreters evaluate
| his science in contrast to the prior
| Aristotelian approaches and in comparison
| to the Ramist approaches of Bacon’s day.
| He rejected them both.
|