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Benjamin Farrington in Francis Bacon: Philosopher of Industrial
Science (p. 141). “When we analyze it we find that it consists
not so much in a scientific advance as in the well-founded
confidence that the life of man can be transformed by science.”
Farrington is saying that had things turned out less well for
man and science he would have had to regard Bacon’s
confidence as so much hot air and blather. A person with some
acquaintance with Bacon’s medieval roots can make a better
case for his intellectual plausibility. The very phrase
“experimental science” was invented and used in the thirteenth
century by Roger Bacon of the same family as Francis. Roger
makes the full distinction between deductive reasoning,
insisting upon particularity of evidence in his discussion of the
rainbow. (59)
Bacon was more impressed by the meaning of print as