humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Elizabeth wrote:
> I don't mean that Bacon invented Pepto Bismal,

That is not chemistry.

> I meant that Bacon worked out the scientific method
> in his lab.

That is not chemistry.

> He was the first to figure out how to
> calculate the weight of gasses

That is not chemistry.

> and the first to
> describe the molecular action of heat.

That is not chemistry. And the very word "molecule" didn't even exist in
his time.
--
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W.
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"