Absolutely, no guess there. It was Brahe and Kepler's astronomical collaboration that led to Kepler's discovery of "the force that moves the worlds" and, thence, Newton's theories of gravitation, motion, continuous mathematical functions, the speed of light, and so on.

So it probably was for everyone who studied the stars carefully. Whenever someone ever said, "I feel like it must be the equinox" and then consulted their astronomical rock markings and learned that, actually, no, irrespective of how they might feel the equinox is not for another 3 weeks.... that was science right there.

It was definitely the science that proved science itself had to have a methodology outside religious thought and that it needed something besides logic to solve discrepancies. Galileo pushed for that ... and won, eventually.