John Herchel (1 янв 1792 г. – 1 янв 1871 г.)

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John Herschel (1792 - 1871) published a groundbreaking book, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, in 1830, which
addressed this very issue, and attempted to breach the growing divide, possibly realizing the damage that this widening rift could cause.
-Herschel's other contribution to the history of the philosophy of science was his refinement of the structure of the scientific process, building
upon the earlier work of Bacon and Huygens. Herschel believed that science should use inductive processes to arrive at laws, in tandem
with forming a hypothesis and attempting to test it through rigorous and repeated experimentation.
-Comparing the results with known facts strengthened the foundations of the hypothetico deductive method. He also made the first
attempt to address the fact that it was becoming increasingly difficult to speak of science as a united body, with science starting to separate
into many different fields and disciplines

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