What shift in scientific thinking took place in the 1500s and 1600s?

There was a scientific revolution. The people started to make conclusions based on experimentation and observation.

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The time before the century 16 most people thought that the earth was the center of Universe.

But the searching of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus let a shift to the scientific  world by the other hand the italian Galilei did help to change the thought of that time.

answer: born in saint-dié, in the vosges department, france, he studied law, and was called to the bar at paris in 1854,[2] but soon went into politics, contributing to various newspapers, particularly to le temps. he attacked the second french empire with great violence, directing his opposition especially against baron haussmann, prefect of the seine department. a series of his articles in le temps was later republished as the fantastic tales of haussmannlaxupa (1868).[2]

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