Thursday, September 11, 2008

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

People got their information from the Bible or ancient Greek and Romans to find out about the science. The Greek and Christianity believed that earth was the located at the center of the universe and the other planets revolved around it. Aristotle theory was that heavy object reached the land than the lighter object. His theory was believed by others for 1500 years. But,he discovered that all the object of different weight fall at the same speed and time. He proved Aristotle theory wrong and created a new theory.

One of the known scientist Isaac Newton proved Aristotle again wrong on his theory, when he said that one physical law governed the earth while the other one governed the universe. Newton said that there was a universal law of gr aviation which was distributed equally to earth and the universe.

People never had the right way to determine how to investigate the world better. there was a argument between Aristotle and the Greek philosopher that man and women had the same number of teeth without checking it out. we need a proof to prove weather something is wrong or right. we need to have a good observation.

The scientific method is done the following
  • consistent
  • observation
  • hypothesis
  • predictions
  • test
  • not consistent: modify hypothesis.



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