The New Astronomy of the 16th and 17th centuries

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…was no strong religious authority capable of imposing religious orthodoxy on scientific questions. Intellectual, social, and religious reasons played a major role in the change of scientific thought and method in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. People became more concerned with science and deductive reasoning to solve problems. Religion was no longer used as a way of explaining things that were not understood. These new scientists were celebrated and paved the way for modern thought.