Literary notes about instauration (AI summary)
In literature, instauration is used to describe a process of profound renewal or reformation—whether it be intellectual, artistic, or even scientific. It denotes an ambitious project aimed at overhauling established systems, as in the reimagined sciences outlined by Bacon in his so-called "Great Instauration" ([1], [2], [3]), and it is similarly invoked in poetic settings to suggest a spirited rebirth in art or philosophy ([4], [5]). The term also extends to more tangible restorations, such as the reinvention of political institutions or the pioneering reformation inherent in medical breakthroughs like anaesthesia ([6], [7]). Across these contexts, instauration captures the transformative moment when an old order gives way to a renewed state.
- This in that "great birth of time," the "Instauration of the Sciences"!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various - The great instauration: prooemium, preface, plan of the work, and Novum organum.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office - "He had finally (about 1607) settled the plan of the Great Instauration , and began to call it by that name."
— from Bacon by R. W. (Richard William) Church - Where th’ instauration of delightsome dance Amongst the Muses and the Graces
— from The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems by Homer - "We aimed at nothing less than to speak of the instauration of spirit, and its incarnation in a beautiful form.
— from Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham - The instauration of general anaesthesia came from experiments made on man alone.
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell - Its aim was to realise in political institutions that great instauration of which Bacon dreamed in the world of intelligence.
— from Milton by Mark Pattison
