From the Latin for "to lead", this method that goes from specific to general was the basis of Bacon's scientific method
The whole basis of his philosophy was practical thus knowledge 
must be ... By this method he expected to arrive at general laws, having, in the 
first... [DOC] [TLE] Science and Its Method - JStor [PAR] life without stressing the scientific method, although they may attempt to ... 
poliomyelitis or Francis Bacon's famous experiment on the conservation of 
bodies.