to criticism. On 1727, Newton died on March 31 in London. Another innovator, Sir Francis Bacon, was the son of Nicolas Bacon, the Lord Keeper of the Seal of Elisabeth I. He entered the college, Trinity College Cambridge, at age 12. He later described his tutors as "Men of sharp wits, shut up in their cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator." This is the beginning of Bacon's rejection of Aristotelianism and Scholasticism and the new Renaissance Humanism. His father died when he was 18, and being the youngest son, this left him penniless. He turned to the law and at age 23 he was already in the House of Commons. It was not until James I became King that Bacon's career advanced and became known for. Bacon saw himself as the inventor of a method which would kindle a light in nature - "a light that would eventually disclose and bring into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the universe." This method involved the collection of data, their judicious interpretation, the carrying out of experiments, then to learn the secrets of nature by organized observation of its regularities. If a scientific truth is not assumed, it is deduced from observations and a series of thorough experiments. Bacon's ideas and proposals had a powerful influence on the development of science in seventeenth century Europe. The most significant discovery was in the 1700s, which was the application of the scientific view to an understanding of the world. Philosophers began to apply the scientific method to all human ideas and practices. Most people didn’t really care about what happened at this point. In the years to come, science would profoundly alter humanity’s view of the world. Today’s technological revolution had many new innovations that we did not have during the scientific revolution. For example instead of writing everything down, we have computers that store our data for us. Another is example is that we have space s...
