1. 19 February 2012

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    Helge Peters: Empiricism as rape phantasy →

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    In a passage adressed to his monarch, [Francis] Bacon uses bold sexual imagery to explain key features of the experimental method as the inquisition of nature:

    “For you have but to follow and as it were hound nature in her wanderings, and you will be able when you like to lead and drive…

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