NOVUM ORGANUM Or True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature

The ''Novum Organum'' in the shape in which its author left it is only a fragment of the larger work which Bacon contemplated under that title as adequately representing the second part of the ''Great Instauration.'' Nevertheless though only a fragment the ''Novum Organum'' and especially the first book is the most carefully written of all Bacon''s philosophical works. Moreover as describing the new method of which the renovation of knowledge was to be the result it is the keystone of the entire system.