jan 1, 1605 - The Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum

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written in 1605 and 1620, these books by Francis Bacon attacked the scholastic belief that most truth had already been discovered and only required explanation as well as the scholastic reverence for authority in intellectual life. He believed scholastic thinkers paid too much attention to tradition and to the knowledge of the ancients.

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