The Scientific Revolution represented a shift from the medieval worldview to a modern worldview. [1] It combined Renaissance humanism's emphasis on individual ability with the Scientific Revolution's conception of a mechanistic, mathematically governed universe. [2] Francis Bacon would have supported Copernicus's heliocentric theory as it was empirically derived rather than based on the authority of past thinkers like Aristotle. [3] Bacon advocated testing ideas through experiments and observation rather than accepting them on faith.