Method, Empiricism, Power

Aristotle's method is Empiricist, but not in the Foundationalist sense of Locke et al., i. e. he seeks Knowledge via observation, not extends it from immediate Sense Knowledge.  Now, though Bacon pioneers Modern Empiricism, the title of his major work, Novum Organum, signifies a divergence not from Aristotelian Epistemology, but from his Logic, which is presented in the Organon i. e. the primary contrast is that of Inductive vs. Deductive reasoning.  Nevertheless, there is another decisive break that could be classified as Epistemological.  For, Bacon's formulation Knowledge is Power constitutes a supplanting of Contemplation by Techne as the highest Knowledge.  In that respect, the true continuation of Bacon's innovation is to be found in the works of not Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, but of Spinoza, for whom Will and Understanding are one and the same, or of Nietzsche, who explains Aristotle's proposition that humans by nature desire to know as Will to Power.