Isn't cold stopping decay kind of obvious? Frozen corpses in the snow?
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Bacon isn't the scientific revolution. He was a
> lawyer and a politician who wrote some essays and
> books _about_ how to do natural philosophy. As far
> as I know his main attempt to contribute positively
> to natural philosophy was to attempt to stuff a dead
> chicken with snow, testing the hypothesis that cold
> slows decay, which attempt shortly thereafter lead
> to his own demise. Bacon's philosophy of science is
> also not as primitively inductivist as it's
> sometimes painted.
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