Question

What was one of Bacon’s major scientific works?

• A. New Utopia
• B. Paradise Lost
• C. Novum Organum
• D. The Origin of Species

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Novum Organum

Novum Organum (1620):

• The title means "New Instrument" (referring to a new method of acquiring knowledge).

• It’s part of Bacon’s larger, unfinished project called “Instauratio Magna” (The Great Instauration), aiming to reform scientific thinking.

• In it, he rejects the old Aristotelian logic and champions empirical, inductive reasoning.

• This work laid the foundation for the modern scientific method.