I now he was smart and all but, He famously died by contracting pneumonia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia> while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.
But just how smart? On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok, it was Francis Bacon that wrote the rules, that clears that up, >> thanks. > > > Yes, he is the one. That is why Jefferson kept a bust of Bacon in his > house, and why some people consider him the founder of modern science as > much as Newton was. > > When you see people making mistakes in science, going off the track, > wasting money, causing fiascoes, you can usually find a good description of > what they did wrong in Bacon's writings. He gave us a road map to success. > He laid out what should be done, and what should not be avoided. In > particular, he described the mental errors that people make. The methods > have been refined in the last 400 years but the fundamentals are the same. > When people screw up it is usually because they ignore these fundamentals. > > - Jed > >
