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In the years following Bacon’s work, many accepted his view that experiments should be involved in the process of scientific inquiry however, much of his more foundational philosophy and logic was ignored. The development of British empiricism, though similar to Bacon’s work in several respect, was not based on Bacon’s own work but rather, the likes of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and others in fact followed the tradition of the Cartesian philosophers who studied Bacon but largely ignored important elements of his philosophy.[[CiteRef::Briggs (Ed.) (1996)]] Experimentalism survived, but his views on induction and the idols of our sensations were largely ignored by those immediately following him. As such, although empiricism eventually became the foundation for science, it was not directly due to Baconian empiricism.

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