Breakthroughs in Astronomy and Medicine in the 16th and 17th Centuries It was during the 16th and 17th centuries when man's view of the unvierse and himself changed drastically. This came after a millenium of repetition and stagnation in the development of science. People finally began questioning what they were told, and they went out to find proof rather than assuming on the basis of authority and common sense. These advances in astronomy and medicine …showed first 75 words of 972 total…

…showed last 75 words of 972 total…the modern view of the human body. These ideas changed the world forever. "The Great Interuption," as Daniel Boorstin puts it in The Discovers, was finally over. Man had stopped believing everything that it was told, and had gone out to prove it for himself. The human body and the universe were never looked at the same way again. It only took a few smart people, who willing to speak out, to change the world