Science and Lord Bacon

Francis Bacon and socialized science

Francis Bacon and the style of science

There is a very large literature on Bacon and his proposals for scientific enquiry, but so far no one has studied carefully his style of writing, his method of communicating upon which he laid so much emphasis. Professor Stephens here presents and analyses in four chapters the style that Bacon found appropriate for scholarly and scientific writing. First he deals with the problems facing Bacon,...

Roger Bacon and the beginnings of experimental science in Britain.

Roger Bacon is something of an enigma. He has been called many things – ‘Britain’s first scientist’, ‘wonderful doctor’, ‘conjurer’ and ‘magician’. Many of the details of his life are uncertain and they have been discussed and argued about by scholars for centuries. He is generally thought to have been born in Ilchester, Somerset, around 1214, although some authors have put his date of birth as...

Morris Bacon

Decoherence, Control, and Symmetry in Quantum Computers

Lord Lister

i hp; medical man who wishes to gain a clear idea of the broad foundations upon which modern medicine and surgery are based should read two great books which are almost twin classics; Rene Vallery Radot's Life of Pasteur" (English translation by Mrs. Devonshire), and Sir Rickman Godlee's "Lord Lister," the re-appearance of which in a third edition we cordially welcome. Both are finely written s...