THE REVIVAL OF SCIENCE :;0l 



tern" — it must have been a magic lantern — 

 "with pictures in glass, to make strange things 

 appear on a wall, very pretty." 



As we pass from Elizabethan to Stewart 

 times, we pass, in most branches of literature, 

 from men of genius to men of talent, clever 

 men, but not, to use a Germanism, epoch- 

 making men. In science, however, where 

 England led the world, the descent became an 

 ascent. We leave Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly, 

 and we arrive at Harvey and Newton. 



The gap between the medieval science 

 which still obtained in Queen Elizabeth's time 

 and the science of the Stewarts was bridged by 

 Francis Bacon, in a way, but only in a way. 

 He was a reformer of the scientific method. 

 He was no innovator in the inductive method; 

 others had preceded him, but he, from his great 

 position, clearly pointed out that the writers 

 and leaders of his time observed and recorded 

 facts in favour of ideas other than those hither- 

 to sanctioned by authority. 



Bacon left a heritage to English science. 

 His writings and his thoughts are not always 

 clear, but he firmly held, and, with the au- 



