Francis Bacon (may 29, 1561 – may 28, 1626)
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Advocated inductive or experimental method: observation of natural phenomena, accumulating data, experimenting to refine data, drawing conclusions and formulating principles subject to continual observation and experimentation; credited as original empiricist
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