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The frontispiece to Sir Francis Bacon's Instauratio magna (Great Instauration) of 1620 depicts a ship sailing through two classical columns into an open sea; it symbolizes moving beyond the limits of classical (i.e., ancient Greek) scholarship into a realm of potential unlimited natural knowledge.

The image and its allegoric sense draw their inspiration from the frontispiece of Andrés García de Céspedes's Regimiento de Navegación, published in 1606. . Source: http://hsci.cas.ou.edu/digitized/17thCentury/Bacon/1620/Bacon-1620-0fp-image/10in/[dead link]

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