Throughout his writings, Francis Bacon shows a great interest in the power of the imagination, both on other minds and on other bodies, a crucial part of natural magic. Convinced of the overall value of magic, Bacon nevertheless takes issue with the corrupt state into which he saw this discipline as having descended, overrun with false theories and invented stories. Bacon’s reform of experimental natural philosophy includes a naturalisation of magic, and this can be best illustrated when we look at his conception of fascination. In this paper, I show that the characteristics of this naturalisation are: (1) the definition of the object of study and the classification of phenomena; (2) the use of models and analogical thinking when the topic under study is difficult to observe; (3) the introduction of measurements and quantification of natural phenomena; (4) the need for replicability and diversification of experiments; and (5) the rejection of explanations in terms of occult qualities and their replacement with explanations in terms of the motion(s) of the spiritual matter emitted from the active body, which is impressed on the motion of the spiritual matter of the passive body.

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弗朗西斯·培根的远距离魅力与行动

在他的著作中，弗朗西斯·培根对想象的力量表现出极大的兴趣，无论是在其他思想上还是在其他身体上，这是自然魔法的重要组成部分。尽管相信魔法的整体价值，培根仍然对他认为这门学科已经堕落、充斥着错误理论和虚构故事的腐败状态提出异议。培根对实验自然哲学的改革包括魔术的自然化，当我们看一下他的魅力概念时，可以最好地说明这一点。在本文中，我表明这种归化的特点是：（1）研究对象的界定和现象的分类；(2) 在研究课题难以观察时运用模型和类比思维；(3) 引入自然现象的测量和量化；(4) 实验可复制性和多样化的需要；(5) 拒绝神秘品质的解释，代之以从主动体发出的灵性物质运动的解释，这种运动印在被动体的灵性物质运动上.