The relationship between Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarum and Giovan Battista Della Porta's Magia naturalis has previously been discussed in terms of sources and borrowings in the literature. More recently, it has been suggested that one can read these two works as belonging to a common genre: as collections of recipes or books of secrets. Taking this as a framework, in this paper I address another type of similarity between these two works, one that can be detected by looking at the methods of reading, research, and enacting and recording recipes one can find in Bacon and Della Porta. I show that essential to the two approaches was the complex interplay of practices associated with enacting recipes, and that these influenced the ways in which Della Porta and Bacon recorded their experiments. Creative manipulation of the recipes transformed them into something new. In the case of Della Porta's second edition of the Magia naturalis, this new format is something I call “technologies,” that is, ways of recording the enacting of recipes with the intention to ensure repeatability and predictability of results. In the case of Bacon, the enactment aims at something different: to display and “bring to light” the hidden motions and processes of nature.

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制定配方：Giovan Battista Della Porta和Francis Bacon关于自然界的技术，实验和过程

弗朗西斯·培根的西尔瓦·西尔瓦鲁姆与乔瓦·巴蒂斯塔·德拉·波塔的《自然》的关系先前已经在文献中就来源和借用进行了讨论。最近，有人建议人们可以将这两种作品读为一种共同体：作为食谱或秘密书的集合。本文以此框架为基础，探讨了这两种作品之间的另一种相似性，可以通过阅读，研究和制定和记录食谱的方法来发现它们之间的相似性，这些方法可以在培根和德拉·波塔找到。我证明了这两种方法的关键是与制定配方相关的实践之间的复杂相互作用，并且这些影响了Della Porta和Bacon记录实验的方式。对配方的创造性操作将它们转变为新的东西。对于Della Porta的第二版Magia naturalis，这种新格式被我称为“技术”，即记录配方制定的方法，旨在确保结果的可重复性和可预测性。就培根而言，该法案的目的是不同的：展示和“揭示”自然的隐藏动作和过程。