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Usage examples of "experimentum".
But notwithstanding this frequent confusion of interests, it is easy to attain what natural philosophers, after Lord Bacon, have affected to call the experimentum crucis, or that experiment which points out the right way in any doubt or ambiguity.
Fiat experimentum in corpore vili is a just rule where there is any reasonable presumption of benefit to arise on a large scale.