Francis Bacon’s ideas and research would help establish the Scientific Method, the set of principles still used today in science and medicine. He put forth that rigorous testing, reasoning and observable fact should establish scientific law rather than assumptions or a set of pre-established ‘truths’ about the world. The renaissance and reformation had created a culture throughout Europe of questioning the established ways of seeing things yet still, many of Bacon’s ideas would provoke clergy an

Taken from 'The Brutality of Fact' an intimate documentary made about Francis Bacon in 1987 🔥