Assertion: gunpowder | /r/MadeOf | innumerable changes
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text: This is an entirely fair assessment, but Bacon's appreciation of gunpowder as a tool for natural philosophy actually goes far deeper than his famous proclamation that gunpowder, the printing press and the mariner's compass had made ‘innumerable changes, insomuch that no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs than these mechanical discoveries’.35