The importance of scientific experiments
The rise of modern science perhaps dates back to the age of Roger Bacon. Roger Bacon was a renowned monk and philosopher in Oxford. He was born in 1214 and died in 1292. He might be the first one in the Medieval Time to propose that we must study science through making observations and experiments about the things surrounding us, and he made many outstanding discoveries himself. However, Galileo (1564-1642), who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest among several great figures in Italy, France, Germany, and England, who began gradually showing people that many important truths could be discovered through employing proper observational methods. Before Galileo, the scholars believed that the bigger object could reach the ground faster than the smaller one, because that was what Aristotle had said. However, Galileo climbed to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, letting two rocks with different volumes drop to the ground at the same time, therefore proving to his friends whom he had brought to watch the experiment that Aristotle was wrong. It was Galileo’s spirit of proving our judgments and theories through exploring nature directly and conducting experiments that had led to all the great scientific discoveries in modern time.
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