Why do you think great britain followed a policy of "salutary neglect" in its relationship with the american colonies in the years previous to the revolutionary war?

benefit from the economic prosperity of the American colonies

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.