How has sir France Bacon's discovery change mans view of the world?

Answer 1

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is not known for any discoveries, but for his invention, or re-invention, of empirical science. When Bacon went to college, his professors made him study what Aristotle and other ancient Greeks had written 2000 years earlier about science. Other "scientists" investigated alchemy (turning ordinary rock into gold) and magic. Bacon thought that science should be the study of actual facts, discovered by observation and experimentation, and consideration of what caused those facts to be true. Furthermore, he thought that the goal of science should be the development of knowledge that would make people's lives better and easier. Some people think that Sir Francis Bacon was the originator of the "Age of Science", which brought people more knowledge of anatomy and therefore better health care, steam engines to lessen the backbreaking work that people had to do, and similar inventions that transformed the world of everyday people.