The rise of modern science may be traced back to the era of Roger Bacon.
Roger Bacon, who was an outstanding monk and philosopher at Oxford, was born in 1214 and died in 1292. He may be the first in Middle Ages who suggested that we must study science through observing things around us and experiment and who himself had many remarkable discoveries. However, Galileo, who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest of the greatest schoolars who in Italy, French, Germany, and England gradually made people belive that many important truths could be discovered by well managed observation. Before Galileo, schoolars believed that bigger objects would fall faster than smaller objects, for Aristotle had said so. However, Galileo went to the top of the leaningTower of Pisa, and let two stones with different sizes fall and reach the ground at the same time. The experiment approved to the friends who he took to observe the experiment that Aristotle was wrong. It is the Galileo's spirit of going directly to the Nature and approving our judgement and theories through experiments that led to the many important discoveries of modern science.
