This is important because it means in answering the question I’m not looking for factors which caused something to happen at a very particular time and place, e.g. not what made Francis Bacon very special or the like.
A little at odds with things I wrote in the early paragraphs, I now think that the changes to modern science around the 16th/17th century were likely quite meaningful and worthy of special investigation. This might have been more apparent if I’d gone into more depth on each the scientific methods proposed by different people.
Overall though, I do think I overall got a better answer from not looking narrowly at that period.
A little at odds with things I wrote in the early paragraphs, I now think that the changes to modern science around the 16th/17th century were likely quite meaningful and worthy of special investigation. This might have been more apparent if I’d gone into more depth on each the scientific methods proposed by different people.
Overall though, I do think I overall got a better answer from not looking narrowly at that period.