The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Observatium and experimentu are two words you very seldom find coupled in mediaeval latin texts. That's what either shepherds do in their fields, sailors on their ships, or experimentum artisans in their workshops. You start to see first the doctors and then the natural philosophers putting these two together and making them into what bacon called learned experience,. Simply, there's a paradox. There actually because it means that, roughly at the same time this very careful attention is being paid to particular events, whether wondrous or not, you also have this increasing confidence that there will be general, rigorous, unexceptionless laws of nature.