The Huguenot Bernard Palissy is known for decorated grottoes and dishes. But he also helped to lead the way towards the use of empirical methods in science and the debunking of mystic medieval metaphysics.
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Kemp, M. Palissy's philosophical pots. Nature 390, 665 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/37737
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