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Author(s) -
Hoffmann Roald,
Laszlo Pierre
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20010316)40:6<1033::aid-anie10330>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - metaphor , allusion , opposition (politics) , feeling , trace (psycholinguistics) , intrusion , literature , philosophy , aesthetics , art , history , epistemology , linguistics , political science , law , politics , geology , geochemistry
Struggling with nature is certainly a familiar feeling to many of us. This particular metaphor began life, however, after another wrestling bout, in a striking classical allusion by Francis Bacon in 1605. We trace the evolution of the metaphor through the centuries and the way it has been invoked in opposition to science. Is it possible to experiment without intrusion?