The Enlightenment period was a time marked by revolutions in science, philosophy, and politics. It was period that lasted from the seventeenth century to the eighteenth century. Long cherished notions about the physical world, knowledge and truth, human nature, and society were altered. The main focus of the enlightenment period was discovering the truths of the physical world and the sciences behind those truths.In this search for truth, rhetoric underwent many changes. The Ciceronian conception of rhetoric was once again the foundation of rhetorical study. The five canons remained the groundwork of rhetoric. Francis Bacon carried his influences of rhetoric over from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment period in the seventeenth century, and
