The book is devoted to the history of the formation of science in the second half of the XVI - early XVIII century. and the cultural contexts in which this happened. The focus is on related phenomena: the scientific method, provable theories, accessible language, open scientific communities and the reaction of citizens to the demonstration of experiments, public lectures and studies read. Thanks to the availability of scientific texts and experiments at this time, such abilities of the soul as vision, imagination and memory are rethought, which became the basis of new knowledge, which provided confidence in experience, new forms of broadcasting and preservation of information.