The Primary Importance of Francis Bacon to the Scientific Revolution

The primary importance of Francis Bacon to the scientific revolution was

A) as a great experimental scientist who formulated the basic law of acceleration.
B) as a mathematician who provided the third part of Kepler's second law of motion.
C) as a great theoretical scientist who provided a uniform theory of universal attraction from the work of Copernicus and Galileo.
D) as a great propagandist who popularized the findings and methodology of the new scientific inquiries.
E) as the founder of modern philosophy.