Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) A London-born statesman and philosopher. As a forerunner of the British empiricist tradition and a prophet of the dawning scientific revolution , he was the first writer to outline clearly the

argument drew implicitly on Francis Bacon ’s earlier distinction between the book of revelation and the book of nature. Though God was the author of both books, the distinction provided scientists freedom from forcing their results to

to fix nature.” Francis Bacon , a 17 th century English philosopher and statesman, “urged massive use of science and technology to repair the effects of the fall.” For Bacon, Cole-Turner says, humans could “cooperate

world to the test’ in Francis Bacon ’s memorable phrase - to conduct experiments. Beyond this, 17th-Century Puritanism may have provided the perfect climate for science to grow, since, as Janet Martin Soskice has pointed out, both