Sir Francis Bacon's Reason 

New ideas would come about "by a connexion and transferring of the observations of one Arte, tro the uses of another, when the experience of several misteries shall fall under consideration of one mans minde." 

The Two Books of the  Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Book 2, p10, 1605

(From the SCS Distinguished Lecture Series by Dr Fredereick P Brooks, Jr at CMU on 1/31/2002)