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time to get in the time machine. Off to meet a great mind. A frozen chicken and the birth of

the scientific method. Oh yes. Cue the music.

The ghost of a half-plucked chicken is haunting a city square. It's ghoulish flapping,

helping science take another step forward. Key to understanding the natural world and the wider cosmos are careful observation and analysis.

Also rigorous testing of new ideas and insights. Out of this intellectual cauldron of thought and process came the

scientific method. Hi Neil. Last week we travelled with you to the city of London in Great Britain

to hear the finishing touches being put to the most iconic version of the world's

best-selling book. Where are we this week? Hi Paul, well, we're going from a holy book to a half-plucked

frozen chicken. It's 1626 and we're travelling to meet one of the world's great thinkers. It's

midwinter in the village of Highgate

in London and Francis Bacon is stepping out of his horse-drawn carriage into a fearfully cold April day.

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