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Quotation from Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
“printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world”
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism CXXIX, trans. Joseph Devey (ed.), 1902
Bacon's evidence that inventions unknown to the ancients have reshaped literature, war and navigation more than any empire.
Citation: "printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world" — Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism CXXIX, trans. Joseph Devey (ed.), 1902. (id novum-organum-q9)
Portrait: Portrait of Francis Bacon., Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain.
