How did scientist prove their ideas during the Scientific Revolution?

Alchemists and 'philosophers' throughout history never had any problem proving their ideas, through skillful and efficacious implementation of the data-processing method known technically as...

They used accurate observations in their work.

The Scientific Revolution created more hardcore scientific techniques to prove theories. It also sparked a time when the sciences of the times came under scrutiny and new theories were explored, and...

People learned to use observation to come to conclusions. People questioned long-accepted views. People became more interested in evidence