Teaching the Controversy
– It’s only Micro-Gravity
http://www.youtube.com/v/BMNEWiU8QFM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1
Education Essentials: The Scientific Method
What I wish I had been taught in elementary school: This video explains how we acquire knowledge, and how ideas go from initial observations to accepted theories.
http://www.youtube.com/v/zcavPAFiG14&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01
Francis Bacon – Philosopher and Scientist
From Today in Science History:
Francis Bacon. Born 22 Jan 1561; died 9 Apr 1626.
English philosopher, whose book Advancement of Learning (1605) was partially responsible for the founding of the scientific Royal Society. The book presented the value of logic and experimentation rather than the prevailing pursuit of mystical analogies between man and the cosmos, or the search for magical powers over natural processes, as in alchemy and the concoction of elixirs and panaceas. Bacon had the conviction that the human mind is fitted for knowledge of nature and must derive it from observation, not from abstract reasoning. He recognized mathematics as an auxiliary to natural science. Thus Bacon proposed the Novum Organum, a “new tool” for the rational mind – inductive reasoning – known as the scientific method.
- Works by Francis Bacon at Project Gutenberg
- Works by/about Francis Bacon, from Internet Archive. Scanned, illustrated original editions.
- Francis Bacon Research Trust – Studies of Bacon’s connections to the Rosicrucians, Freemasonry, Shakespeare
- A more easily readable version of the New Organon
- Francis Bacon entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Juergen Klein
- The Twickenham Museum – Sir Francis Bacon
- Henry Wotton employed by Bacon’s intelligence system
- Essays by Francis Bacon at Quotidiana.org
- The Essays: Francis Bacon
- Novum Organum Online
How Not To View Science
Hat-tip to Sandwalk for this video explaining how science can only be judged with supported evidence, not emotion or ignorance.
http://www.youtube.com/v/-h9XntsSEro&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01
