Article ID: CBB629362291

Disciplining Experience: Francis Bacon’s Experimental Series and the Art of Experimenting (2015)

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This article is an investigation into the rationale and the structure of order of Francis Bacon’s natural and experimental histories. My aim is to show that these natural histories are mainly composed of experimental series, i.e. methodologically organized recordings of experimental inquiries. Bacon’s experimental series have a double purpose: heuristic and pedagogical. They direct and encode the “good” experimental practices, while also teaching the neophyte how to become a Baconian experimenter. In this article, I discuss the key elements of Bacon’s methodology of experimentation which play an essential role in the generation of experimental series.

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Authors & Contributors
Rusu, Doina-Cristina
Jalobeanu, Dana
Pastorino, Cesare
Kruckenberg, Nicholas Anthony
Vanzo, Alberto
Parageau, Sandrine
Journals
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Perspectives on Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
The Catholic University of America
Lexington Books
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Experiments and experimentation
Experimental method
Philosophy
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Natural history
People
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Della Porta, Giovan Battista
Boyle, Robert
Wolff, Christian von
Harvey, William
Newton, Isaac
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
18th century
Places
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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