ABSTRACT
During the seventeenth century, England as well as Italy became a leading center of scientific activity. A comparison between Francis Bacon and Galileo Galilei involves not only a shift in location and cultural tradition, but a change of personality and intellectual outlook. What Galileo had propounded in his polemics with specific opponents and in reference to particular observations, Bacon proceeded to discuss through a careful cataloging of past errors which would help him mark out the future of the sciences. This chapter presents a discussion which has been divided into a like fashion, dealing first with science and religion or the value of truth for its own sake and then with science and utility or the value of truth for the benefit of man. It also deals with the “symbolic enlargement” of science.
