Question

doing science: measure and know ews: science scene until about three hundred years ago, people who studied nature were called natural philosophers. they were mostly thinkers. they did not run experiments. ets say that you lived during that time. if youd wanted to know what old 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. ut then, in the seventeenth century in europe, there was change. natural philosophy came under attack. a group scientific instruments help scientists find evidence and build new theories, or ideas, about nature. question 6 what did scientists think was like nature? a. labs b. measuring tools c. machines d. experiments submit extras

Explanation:

The question asks what scientists thought was like nature. The left text mentions the shift in scientific approach, but the core context links scientific instruments (a type of measuring tool) to understanding nature, as the image caption states they help build theories about nature. Among options, measuring tools align with this link.

Answer:

B. Measuring tools