Which term describes the era when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of superstitions and beliefs that had existed since ancient times?
I think that this period is the "Scientific Revolution" of the Early modern period: It began at the end of Renaissance (which was mostly an artistic movement) and it is believed to have started with the publication by Nicolas Copernicus, in which he proposed the heliocentric model of the Solar System
