In addition to a religious revolution, during the Renaissance, a scientific revolution was also beginning to flourish and expand. This new scientific revolution was significant in that it took away many of the old ideas of supernatural power and fate and replaced them with revolutionary discoveries. Those first revolutionary discoveries were the ones that gave a start to the modern knowledge we have in our present day. Numerous assumptions and theories about ... the universe and the human body were changed ... ...

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... east, all this changed. Advances in Geography were made with the introduction of Ptolemaic Geography. More importantly than the rediscovery of ancient geography was the beginning of skepticism in Western Europe. No longer would the Church's word be taken on faith. The idea that the physical world could be understood through the use of empiricism "analytical thought "was also introduced. René Descartes even began to doubt his own existence ... only proves that the spirit of the Enlightenment was one of changed "and, indeed, such change meant breaking away from the idea of religious thou...

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... described his teachers as" men of Sharp wits, shut up in their cells of few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator. (http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/baconbib.htm) This was likely the beginning of Bacon's rejection of the new Renaissance Humanism and the basis of his writings. In 1579, Francis Bacon studied law and by the age 23 he was already in the House of Commons. Between the years of 1579 and 1618, Francis Bacon ... held many positions in the Parliament, including, clerk of the Star Chamber, attorney general, Lord Keeper of the Seal and Lord Chancellor. In 1603, James I...

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