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Benner, Steven. Life, the Universe… and the Scientific Method (2009), стр. 45.

http://archive.org/stream/dynamicslivingm00loebgoog#page/n6/mode/2up

Lemov, Rebecca. World as Laboratory (2005). Hill and Wang.

Книга была опубликована в 1627 году, через год после смерти Бэкона.

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/bacon/atlantis.html

With the new knowledge acquired by science, the enlightened mind no longer needs to see the fabrication of protoplasm in order to be convinced of the absence of all essential difference and all absolute discontinuity between living and not-living matter.