4. francis bacon believed that scientists should

Francis Bacon was a natural English philosopher who used inductive reasoning in an attempt to improve the mistakes made by Aristotle, and is known to promote (scientific) method. ... In other words, Bacon believed that scientists should use inductive reasoning.

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

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