How did new scientific discoveries between the 15th and 18th centuries contribute to the enlightenment

The main way in which "new scientific discoveries between the 15th and 18th centuries contributed to the Enlightenment" was that " D. They showed the reason could provide better answers about the world than tradition or religion.

The correct answer is: "the scientific revolution was the materialization of the benefits of reason over religious dogmatism and superstitions".

The Enlightenment philosophers, such as Locke, Monstequieu or Rosseau. introduced ideas that challenged, and ended up derrocating, the power structures of the Old Regime. They promoted reason and the scientific method over religious dogmatism and superstititions.

The main principles developed were the following: definition of bills of citizens' rights, social contract (citizens electing political representatives to create goverments through suffrage, in opposition to the prevailing absolute monarchies whose power was supposed to arise from God's will), and the division of the powers of the state in order to avoid excessive power accumulation in certain sectors, and risks of authoritarism.