The English monk Roger Bacon is best known for which of the following innovations?
A. Bacon argued for a system of investigating the world that relied on inductive reasoning, observation, and experimentation.
B. Bacon argued that experimentation and observation led men away from divine truths.
C. Bacon is responsible for bringing many East Asian inventions, such as the magnetic compass, to Europe.
D. Bacon proposed that scientific discoveries could only be made outside of church teachings and that science and religion could not be reconciled.
Answer: A
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