To him, and not to Lord Bacon, must be attributed the renaissance of science.

Bacon was not only ignorant of mathematics, but depreciated its application to physical inquiries.

He contemptuously rejected the Copernican system, alleging absurd objections to it.

While Galileo was on the brink of his great telescopic discoveries, Bacon was publishing doubts as to the utility of instruments in scientific investigations.

To ascribe the inductive method to him is to ignore history.