Showing posts with label 1627. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1627. Show all posts

Friday, March 26, 2010

Bringing Up Bacon

Heat and cold are nature's two hands by which she chiefly worketh.
--Francis Bacon (1627)

Bacon got it right for his time and place even though he didn't understand how heat and work interrelated.

How nature really works (at a chemical level) is polarization followed by attack followed by depolarization.

Sound familiar?