Word: organum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become an institution in the U. S. theatre is due largely to the abilities of his art director, Claude Bragdon. Claude Bragdon's fame lies principally outside the theatre; largely in fact, it exists in the fourth dimension for it washe who translated Ouspensky's Tertium Organum and wrote, among other works, Four Dimensional Vistas. When Einstein came to the U. S., Bragdon was one of the first named as belonging to that hypothetical "ten" who understood the master's theory of relativity. Especially was Claude Bragdon interested in mathematical metaphysics as applied to esthetics...
...Maius" is indeed the comparative. TIME gave the President's survey of the whole state of the union the title which Roger Bacon used for his "encyclopedia and organum of the 13th Century," and had TIME meant "great work" it would have said magnum opus, not opus magnus...
...shall be filled to overflowing within a year, and will assert its supremacy over the field of Economics. The grievances of the deceived amateur will need airing; it will be learned that instead of the Saturday Post for tutorial reading, he will be obliged to read Bacon's "Novum Organum" or write on the Restoration Drama. As an upperclassman he will arouse from his dilemma; and his convictions will attest that native ability is foreign as an aid in meeting the requirements of the "Generals". Sumner Moskovitz...
Bacon. The 300th anniversary was fittingly observed of the publication of the Novum Organum, the master work of Sir Francis Bacon (1561- 1626), who, while not a great investigator himself, laid the foundation of modern scientific research by his insight into the true spirit and method of science. Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, of Smith College, Dr. Mark Liddell, of Purdue University, and other scientific historians paid tribute to Lord Bacon's vast influence over subsequent thought...
...what noble literature; and he said: ' I haven't read it much, but I tell you what I think?Emerson's books and Thoreau's and yours (Burroughs') will be read after the Bible is forgotten.' " If Mr. Ford knew more history he might know that Bacon's Novum Organum was also picked to outlive the Bible...