 He also coined the term ‘exploratory experiment’ to describe a form of experimentation that includes ‘The devising of New and convenient Tools or other Instruments for altering the usual State or the common course of things, and for thereby reducing nature to vary her Course and afford the Enquirers some new Phaenomena’ (BP, 9:52). This is clearly a precursor of the modern notion of exploratory experiment (Steinle 2016).