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Organum (aphorism 129):
It is well to observe the force and effect and
consequences of discoveries. These are to be seen
nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which
were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin,
though recent, is obscure; namely, printing, gunpowder,
and the magnet. For these three have changed the whole
face and state of things throughout the world; the first in
literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation;
whence have followed innumerable changes; insomuch
that no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted
greater power and influence in human affairs than these
mechanical inventions.
“With Bacon we enter a new mental climate,” writes