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.

Explanation:

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.

after the roman empire fell, some of its cultural achievements lasted for some time and others were lost. lost achievements include architecture , coins, and literacy. however, several things remained, such as the language. people may not have spoken this language in every city, but it influenced the languages they did speak. they also created the julian , which was commonly used until the eighteenth century.