Pre-modern Medicine: Scientific thinking methodology (Enlightenment")Descartes'rationalism and Bacon 's empiricism had to be combined to produce the modern scientific method 培根 Francis bacon1561-1626 According to Bacon, scientists should experiment freely and collect facts about everything in the world, until in due time the accumulation of facts would make clear the way nature behaves, from the storehouse of accumulated facts scientists would induce the laws of nature.(inductive methodology) Knowledge itself is power 笛卡儿 Rene descartes1596-1650 According to Descartes, scientists should deduce the laws of nature by pure reason, starting from the axioms of mathematics and our knowledge of the existence of God. Experiments needed to be done only to verify that the logical deduction of the laws of nature was correct. deductive methodology His aphorism is I think therefore I am ③=Pre-modern Medicine: Scientific thinking & methodology (“Enlightenment”) Descartes' rationalism and Bacon's empiricism had to be combined to produce the modern scientific method 培根 Francis Bacon 1561-1626 According to Bacon, scientists should experiment freely and collect facts about everything in the world, until in due time the accumulation of facts would make clear the way nature behaves. From the storehouse of accumulated facts, scientists would induce the laws of nature. (inductive methodology ) Knowledge itself is power 笛卡儿 Rene Descartes 1596-1650 According to Descartes, scientists should deduce the laws of nature by pure reason, starting from the axioms of mathematics and our knowledge of the existence of God. Experiments needed to be done only to verify that the logical deduction of the laws of nature was correct. (deductive methodology) His aphorism is I think therefore I am