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Bacon, Descartes & the Scientific Method By:PungPung | 301
The 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 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.
His linguistic work has been heralded for its early exposition of a universal grammar. 21st century re-evaluations emphasize that Bacon was essentially a medieval thinker, with much of his "experimental" knowledge obtained from books in the scholastic tradition.
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.
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Sir Isaac Newton
Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific
viewpoint until it was superseded by the theory of relativity.
An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians and most influential scientists of all time.
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.
Francis Bacon
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.
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.
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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.