BIOL 2153 Chapter : CH 3 2
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Modern science didn"t take off until the 1500s with francis bacon and rene. Because the middle ages and the classical ages in greece and rome made. English: extremely vital, process of the scientific method: Contribution: the scientific method / the inductive method. Before bacon deductive method: (wrong: 1) gather evidence, 2) explain the evidence/thesis, 3) test the thesis against the evidence/does it explain it, 1) thesis, 2) evidence, 3) test. Without the scientific method we have nothing, no modern science: leads to biased evidence gathering. Just as important in the evolution of modern science as bacon was. Contribution: qualities and quantities; invented coordinated geometry. Divided the world into quantities (measured) and qualities (not measured: qualities ex) love, hatred, beauty, quantities ex) a person, floor, marker, desk. His deal science deals only with things that are quantified. Divorce from qualities that made modern science possible** Werner von braun father of modern rocketry.
