-methods that depended on tangible proof

-emphasis on  experimentation and interaction

-shared his ideas with his  uncle, Lord Burghley, and later with Queen Elizabeth in his Letter of  Advice.

-Novum Organum Scientiarum

(builds on scientific method)

-The Advancement of Learning and On the Wisdom of  the Ancients

-1589 he wrote The Anatomie of Absurditie and the preface to Greene’s Menaphon.

-Marprelate controversy and matched wits with the unidentified Puritan “Martin.”

-wrote the preface to Thomas Newman’s unauthorized edition of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella 

-Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Devill focusing on the 7 deadly sins

-  focusing primarily on any narrative structure or controlling objective.

-wrote Strange Newes

-Christs Teares over Jerusalem, Nashe warned his countrymen during one of the country’s worst outbreaks of bubonic plague that, unless they reformed.

-Terrors of the night followed

-was knighted in 1585, and within two years became captain of the queen's guard.

-1584 and 1589 he established a colony near Roanoke Island, which he named Virginia.

-1588 he took part in the victory over the Spanish Armada.

-Raleigh wanted to marry one of Queen Elizabeth's maids of honor, Bessy Throckmorton and was sent to the Tower of Terror.

-to recover his position, he led an abortive expedition to Guiana to search for El Dorado (place with gold)

-Instead, he helped to introduce the potato plant and tobacco use in England and Ireland.

-wrote his History of the World