Clifford D. Conner Quote
The "Baconian" sciences were the kind Francis Bacon had in mind when he issued a call to revitalize science by basing it on craftsmen's knowledge of nature. Bacon is remembered as the most effective critic of the traditional learning promulgated the elite institutions of his day....Bacon advocated compiling a "history of arts," or encyclopedia of crafts knowledge...
p. 137 - A People's History of Science (2005)
