In 1620, the British politician and philosopher Francis Bacon published
Novum Organum (New Method) and formalized the previously scattershot
methods of scientific experimentation into a method able to be
replicated. In due time, the Western world would build an intellectual
empire on the basis of Bacon's concepts of scientific research. The
West's university and its scientific and medical systems all stem from
Bacon's philosophy. But after nearly four hundred years; it is time for
something new again. In mathematics, theoretical physics, and
philosophy, a quiet revolution has begun. Thinkers who can study across
disciplines and form analogies, who take seriously the History and
Philosophy of Science and its problems of metaphysics and epistemology,
have been making impressive breakthroughs. These methods have been, up
until now, as random as the process of experimentation was in Bacon's
day. This timely book has come to formalize these methods, build upon
Bacon's scientific research model, and to ultimately go beyond it.