Georgescu Laura, Giurgea Mădălina
Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 204, Sector 6, Bucureşti, Romania.
Early Sci Med. 2012;17(1-2):158-80. doi: 10.1163/157338212x631828.
In this article we argue that the views that Francis Bacon and René Descartes held about the role of experiments in the process of discovery are closer than previously accepted. Looking at the way experiments and the heuristics of experimentation are embedded in Bacon's posthumous History of Dense and Rare and Descartes' Discourses 8, 9, 10 of the Meteorology, we will show that experiments help the investigator both in solving specific problems that could not have otherwise been foreseen and in generating relevant information that advances the scope of the investigation.
在本文中，我们认为弗朗西斯·培根和勒内·笛卡尔对于实验在发现过程中所起作用的观点比以往所公认的更为接近。通过审视实验以及实验启发法在培根的遗作《浓与稀的历史》和笛卡尔《气象学》的第八、九、十篇论述中的体现方式，我们将表明，实验不仅有助于研究者解决那些原本无法预见的具体问题，还能生成推进研究范围的相关信息。
