1267 ⟶ Roger Bacon Publishes *Opus Majus* and Advocates for the Scientific Method
Roger Bacon publishes his Opus Majus, compiling translated C...
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🔬 Roger Bacon Publishes *Opus Majus* and Advocates for the Scientific Method
Roger Bacon publishes his Opus Majus, compiling translated Classical Greek, and Arabic works on mathematics, Optics, and alchemy into a volume, and details his methods for evaluating the theories, particularly those of Ptolemy's 2nd century Optics, and his findings on the production of lenses, asserting “theories supplied by reason should be verified by sensory data, aided by instruments, and corroborated by trustworthy witnesses", in a precursor to the peer reviewed scientific method.⟶
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United Kingdom✍️ Bacon Describes the Scientific Method
Sir Francis Bacon publishes The Proficience and Advancement of Learning, which contains a description of what would later be known as the scientific method.⟶
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United Kingdom📰 Publication of the first peer-reviewed scientific journal
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: first peer reviewed scientific journal published.⟶
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