Question

How did the work of scientists in the Seventeenth Century differ from earlier forms of knowledge and research?

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is: It differs from the previous one in the processes of institutionalization and professionalization of scientific practice, as well as conceptual and methodological developments.

Explanation:

Technological development is altering everything from the economic and political to the psychosocial, the intimate life of people, consumption patterns, human reproduction, the extension of life and its limits with death. Technology invades everything in the contemporary world.

The Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that gave rise to modern science and triggered processes of institutionalization and professionalization of scientific practice, as well as conceptual and methodological developments that would have significant effects on science and its relationship with society in the three following centuries.

The answer is: It differs from the previous one in the processes of institutionalization and professionalization of scientific practice, as well as conceptual and methodological developments.

Answer 2

Answer:

The work of scientists in the seventeenth century differed from earlier forms of knowledge and research in the sense that, earlier forms of knowledge and research depended more on deep thinking rather than using precise tools, observations, measurements and experiments; but the works of scientists of the seventeenth century depended heavily on precise tools, observations, measurements and experiments in order to shed light on unproven theories, and explain a lot of phenomena.