However, Bacon had cautioned that nature can be commanded only when one learns to obey her. One must have facts of nature on which to base reasoning about nature. Hence mathematicians and scientists sought to acquire facts from the experience of artists, technicians, artisans, and engineers. The alliance of mathematics and experience was gradually transformed into an alliance of mathematics and experimentation, and a new method for the pursuit of the truths of nature, first clearly perceived and formulated by Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) and Newton, was gradually evolved.
This approach of obedience and the mastery is something I identify with. It seems to be a the root of the mlux approach
