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Quotes from Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 — Alistair Cameron Crombie

d. 1996

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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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