Influential Writers Francis Bacon and René Descartes, Both Prophets of the New

Multiple Choice

Influential writers Francis Bacon and René Descartes, both prophets of the new science, did all of the following except:

A) brand virtually all beliefs of preceding generations (outside religion) as worthless.
B) ridicule the tendency to put faith in ancient books on questions having to do with the workings of nature.
C) attack the earlier methods of seeking knowledge.
D) hold that the medieval (or Aristotelian) methods approached truth from the right direction.