Valerius Terminus is Francis Bacon’s laboratory: an early, unfinished draft of the great programme he would perfect in the Novum Organum — the limits and true ends of knowledge, the errors that infect learning, and the first sketches of the method that would ‘interpret’ nature rather than guess at her.
Reading it is watching the scientific revolution being drafted, crossings-out and all. Download the free EPUB for Bacon’s grand design in its first handwriting.