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EVERYONE is familiar with the dramatic story of Bernard Palissy, the potter, and how he fired a kiln with his household furniture in order to produce sufficient heat to melt his glazes, but his scientific work is rarely mentioned. A paper on “Palissy, Bacon, and the Revival of Natural Science,” by Sir T. Clifford Allbutt, published in the Proceedings of the British Academy (vol. vi.) is therefore a welcome contribution to the history of science.
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Palissy as a Pioneer of Scientific Method . Nature 93, 518 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093518a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/093518a0