Question

doing science: measure and know
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until about three hundred years ago, people who studied nature were called natural philosophers. they were mostly thinkers. they did not run experiments.
lets say that you lived during that time. if youd wanted to know what cold was, you wouldnt have set up a lab and started studying ice. instead, you might have thought about how cold and hot climates change a persons ideas or health. you wouldnt have measured cold to figure out what it was. the idea would have been unheard of. why? there were no instruments for measuring back then.
but then, in the seventeenth century in europe, there was
scientific instruments help scientists find evidence and build new theories, or ideas, about nature.
question 5
which information is not in the passage?
a. how the study of science has changed
b. what types of questions scientists ask
c. how experiments are used in science
d. what happened to natural philosophers

Explanation:

The passage mentions natural philosophers (pre-17th century thinkers who didn’t run experiments) and scientific instruments’ role, but it does not state what happened to natural philosophers (e.g., whether they transitioned to scientists or disappeared). Option A is implied by the shift from natural philosophers to modern science; Option B is not addressed, but wait—recheck: the passage contrasts past (no experiments) vs. now (instruments/evidence), so A is present. C is implied by instruments helping find evidence. D is absent: no info on what happened to natural philosophers.

Answer:

D. What happened to natural philosophers