Questions tagged [scientific-method]
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Why were Newton's laws accepted when there exists a counter-example?
Though the planets of Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn seemed to obey Kepler's laws, Mercury did not. I just found this page which states that the discrepancy was noted very soon after newton published his laws of motion. Since a law of…
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Nicollet and the notions of systematic and random errors
I recently read Ken Alder's "The measure of all things" about the first steps of the metric system definition. The project described in the book was the measure the meridian arc between Dunkirk and Barcelona in order to be able to define the meter…
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Was Isaac Newton the first person to articulate the scientific method in Europe?
Newton is frequently seen as the founder of Western science. Was he the first person to explicitly articulate the scientific method?
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Who was the first person to give a definition of the scientific method?
Reading about the scientific method I found that the classical definition I got in school (observation - induction - hypoteshis - experimentation - demostration or refutation and tesis or scientific law) was made by Francis Bacon who lived between…
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