Method
Baconian method
Overview
The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method. The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum (1620), or 'New Method', to replace the old methods put forward in Aristotle's Organon. It influenced the early modern rejection of medieval Aristotelianism.
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Philosophers who discussed Baconian method
Related ideas
- Francis Bacon
- Isaac Newton
- John Stuart Mill
- Novum Organum
- Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Max Horkheimer
- A System of Logic
- Puritans
- Scientific method
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Aristotle
- Aristotelianism
- Causality
- Inductive reasoning
- Pliny the Elder
- Syllogism
- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- Royal Society
- Organon
- Common law
- Phenomenon
- Natural History (Pliny)
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.