FAQ About Roger Bacon
How did Roger Bacon's thoughts influence his contemporaries and successors?
Though Roger Bacon's ideas were not widely embraced during his lifetime, they influenced subsequent generations of scholars who recognized the value of empirical methodology. Figures of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, such as Galileo and Francis Bacon, were part of a broader movement that adopted principles echoed in Bacon's ideas, promoting the empirical methods he advocated.
