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Question
The Renaissance was a period of great intellectual activity. Given an account of the outstanding work of the following writer:
Francis Bacon
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Solution
Francis Bacon: He was a great English scholar. His essays contain much wisdom. In his Latin works, ‘Novum Organum’ and ‘New Atlantis’, he talked of applying scientific methods and doing everything in a scientific way.
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