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Bacon, Descartes & the Scientific Method
scientific method
Form a hypothesis, or testable explanation.
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Roger bacon
Also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.
he was regarded as a wizard and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head. He is sometimes credited (mainly since the 19th century) as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method.
His linguistic work has been heralded for its early exposition of a universal grammar. 21st century re-evaluations emphasise that Bacon was essentially a medieval thinker, with much of his "experimental" knowledge obtained from books in the scholastic tradition.
He is sometimes credited (mainly since the 19th century) as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method. Bacon applied the empirical method of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) to observations in texts attributed to Aristotle.
Francis bacon
also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England.
He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature.
Although his most specific proposals about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon the father of the scientific method.
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The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method.
Sir Isaac Newton
was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and most influential scientists of all time.
Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint until it was superseded by the theory of relativity.
Newton's method aims to turn theoretical questions into ones which can be empirically answered by measurement from phenomena.
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By their application, Newton formulated the universal laws of nature with which he was able to unravel virtually all the unsolved problems of his day.