The seventeenth century witnessed the rise and spread of experimental science. Gilbert played with magnets; Galileo rolled balls down inclined planes; Torricelli toyed with tubes of mercury to arrive at the principle of air pressure; Pascal sent a barometer to the top of a mountain to confirm the conjecture that the atmosphere forms a great sea of air; William Harvey dissected and vivisected countless animals in his quest to understand the heart; Newton ran beams of light through prisms and lenses. Although seventeenth-century scientists experimented---- O As experimental science matured and developed, experiment came to be used as a refined tool to test theories or hypotheses and advance scientific discourse. O The increasing demand for instruments also provided employment for a growing number of expert instrument makers. Some of these technological implements extended the range of the senses, and instruments became essential tools for the production of knowledge in a number of arenas of science. O they used a variety of approaches and at the beginning they did not agree on an "experimental method" or the precise role of experiment in generating new knowledge. O All of these statements are correct. O With increasing attention given to experiment in the seventeenth century, the scientific enterprise naturally became more instrument based and technology dependent.

The seventeenth century witnessed the rise and spread of experimental science. Gilbert played with magnets; Galileo rolled balls down inclined planes; Torricelli toyed with tubes of mercury to arrive at the principle of air pressure; Pascal sent a barometer to the top of a mountain to confirm the conjecture that the atmosphere forms a great sea of air; William Harvey dissected and vivisected countless animals in his quest to understand the heart; Newton ran beams of light through prisms and lenses. Although seventeenth-century scientists experimented---- O As experimental science matured and developed, experiment came to be used as a refined tool to test theories or hypotheses and advance scientific discourse. O The increasing demand for instruments also provided employment for a growing number of expert instrument makers. Some of these technological implements extended the range of the senses, and instruments became essential tools for the production of knowledge in a number of arenas of science. O they used a variety of approaches and at the beginning they did not agree on an "experimental method" or the precise role of experiment in generating new knowledge. O All of these statements are correct. O With increasing attention given to experiment in the seventeenth century, the scientific enterprise naturally became more instrument based and technology dependent.