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The theme that this book attempts to develop is that the “what and how” of scientific enquiry has been developed and honed over its long history, and that science has been able, particularly since the seventeenth century, to provide more and more accurate, truthful descriptions of nature and its workings. Well into the eighteenth century, many scientists believed, or at least asserted, that they were moved to reveal God’s great design in nature, to show the beautiful intricacy of the universal harmony, but in nineteenth century science, God was dropped.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
(Francis Bacon, Essay On Truth, 1625.)
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Lutz, P.L. (2002). Today. In: The Rise of Experimental Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-163-3_20
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