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Comment author: taw 21 August 2010 08:49:40AM 0 points [-]

This looks like a drastic overinterpretation. He seems like just another random philosopher, he didn't "develop scientific method", empiricism was far older and modern science far more recent than Bacon, and there's little basis for even claiming radically discontinuous "scientific revolution" around Bacon's times.