A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s through 1700, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs. It resulted in the creation of the scientific method to study the natural world. Scientists that contributed to this were Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Kepler and Boyle.

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A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s through 1700, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs. It resulted in the creation of the scientific method to study the natural world. Scientists that contributed to this were Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Kepler and Boyle.