Bacon was more impressed by the meaning of print as applied knowledge than anybody. The entire Middle Ages had regarded Nature as a Book to be scanned for the vestigial dei. Bacon took the lesson of print to be that we could now literally get Nature out in a new and improved edition. An encyclopedia is envisaged. It is his complete acceptance of the idea of the Book of Nature that makes Bacon so very medieval and so very modern. But this gap is this. The medieval book of Nature was for contemplation like the Bible. The Renaissance Book of Nature was for application and use like movable types. A closer look at Francis Bacon will resolve this problem and elucidate the transition from the medieval to the modern world.