Alistair Cameron Crombie Quotes

d. 1996

Alistair Cameron Crombie (4 November 1915 – 9 February 1996) was an Australian historian of science who began his career as a zoologist. He was noted for his contributions to research on competition between species before turning to history.

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Nicolaus Copernicus is the supreme example of a man who revolutionized science by looking at the old facts in a new way.

Medieval and Early Modern Science (1952)

Newton achieved the clearest appreciation of the relation between the empirical elements in a scientific system and the hypothetical elements derived from a philosophy of nature.

The idea that the order of demonstration was the order of nature came from Plato. Aristotle said that the order of discovery was the reverse of the order of demonstration.

The strategic act by which Grosseteste and his thirteenth- and fourteenth-century successors created modern experimental science was to unite the experimental habit of the practical arts with the rationalism of twelfth-century philosophy.

Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)

Grosseteste's contribution was to emphasize the importance of falsification in the search for true causes and to develop the method of verification and falsification into a systematic method of experimental procedure.

Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)

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