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The Importance Of The Elizabethan Age : The Golden Age

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From 1558-1603, Queen Elizabeth I was the ruler of England. This time period is known as the Elizabethan Era, or The Golden Age, as this was the time of the expansion of creativity and originality. In London during this time, many changes and advancements were taking place that would set out in areas across the surrounding regions and after crossing the Atlantic would spread out across the world. Advancements in science, international expansion and trade, the protestant reformation, and the works of William Shakespeare and his contribution to the flowering of the arts were a few of the fundamental changes that helped alter the history of the world that followed Elizabethan London. Elizabethan London was the home to many advancements that influenced the scientific community. The part it played in the developments of science paved the way for the scientific revolution that came in the next era. While there were many important men in the Elizabethan era who contributed greatly to science, such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler, there were some other forerunners of the scientific revolution. Two of those men were William Gilbert and Francis Bacon. William Gilbert was an English physician who practiced in London for thirty years. In the words of John Gribbin, author of The Fellowship, “[Gilbert] deserves pride of place in any account of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, because he was the first person to set out clearly in print

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