History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET June 2023 History (Shift-I)
Which thinker of the following wrote 'The New Instrument' and said 'Knowledge is power'?
ARene Descartes
BBlaise Pascal
CFrancis Bacon ✓ Correct
DB. Spinoza
Correct answer: (C) Francis Bacon — It was Francis Bacon, so the answer is Francis Bacon.
Explanation
★It was Francis Bacon, so the answer is Francis Bacon.
★Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and statesman of the early Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution.
★Bacon wrote the Novum Organum, which means the new instrument.
★It outlined a more scientific approach to understanding the natural world through inductive reasoning.
★This relied on experimentation and observation.
★He stated the phrase 'Knowledge is power' in his work Meditationes Sacrae of 1597.
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