![]() ![]() Although some historians favour the figure of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473- 1543) and the heliocentric theory to mark the beginning of the Scientific Revolution, others situate the origin in Francis Bacon (1561- 1626) and his description of the scientific method. ![]() Some other key figures of this period were Tycho Brahe (1546- 1601), Rene Descartes (1596- 1650), Johannes Kepler (1571- 1630), Galileo Galilei (1564- 1642) and Isaac Newton (1642- 1727).ĭuring centuries, the study of the universe and the understanding of the world was founded on deep thinking, on mulling over different questions trying to unearth the reasons or explanations that gave clues to understanding the phenomena. By the 16th and 17th centuries, the paradigm started to shift as some natural philosophers were rejecting unproven theories and using precise tools to obtain exact measurements to base their discoveries on observation and experimentation. This was the idea that Francis Bacon defended in his work The New Organon (1620). ![]() Bacon was a philosopher who did not perform any experiment himself but showed the way and paved the road to knowledge with his vision. ![]()
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