| Bacon's science is not "science."
|
| In the last half of the 20th century
| "science" in both the "hard" and "soft"
| sciences underwent the so-called "second
| scientific revolution." The results, in
| physics and biology, produced a
| phenomenology and an empiricism
| that were both quite compatible with the
| pre-Newtonian science of Bacon.
|
| About 80% of the actual research in
| laboratories done today by scientists of
| all fields, (unaware) follows remarkably
| closely to the process explained by
| Bacon in Novum Organum and described in
| New Atlantis--except that taskforce
| research is not today quite as well
| organized as was described by Bacon in
| New Atlantis.
|
| In thinking of Bacon's philosophy of science
| remember the three features in the Latin of
| Novum Organum: Schematismus,
| Processus, Form. These operations, which
| have counterparts in the "case method" of
| searching for the implicit unwritten law
| behind a series of judge rulings, cannot be
| understood from a reading of the Ellis
| translation. Nobody who works from that