Overview: Overview from worldwide distinguished philosophers about the role of the body in empiricism.New insights in the works of philosophical giants like Locke, Galileo, Bacon, Lamarck, Berkeley, Spinoza and.It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of
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