Bacon's manifesto for a new science based on observation and inductive method, sweeping away old dogma. A founding text of the scientific revolution.
Books mentioned in Novum Organum (2)
Metaphysics by Aristotle: “Aristotle's physics are mere logical terms, and he remodelled the same subject in his metaphysics under a more imposing title”
The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon: “we can refer to the evidence of our published writings (especially our books on the Advancement of Learning).”