Timeline for Was Isaac Newton the first person to articulate the scientific method in Europe?
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| Oct 17, 2017 at 4:19 | history | edited | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2016 at 5:53 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | Partially agreed ... "the method" is not what we can find in the philosophical treatises about method but what is "practiced" in the paradigmatic works, like Newton's Principia. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 20:09 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Mauro ALLEGRANZA: yes you are right. He was a philosopher, not a scientist. But the question was "articulating the scientific method", and this he did, indeed. Some scientists of that time, like Kepler and Galileo and others practiced the method, without thinking much about general formulation. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 14:41 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | What does not "fit well" about Bacon - IMO - is that he was a "big theorist" (and rethorist) of new science, but he was not a scientist at all. There is not a single statement in his works with "scientific value" : nor math, nor experiments,... nothing at all. But his role was paramount indeed. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 14:39 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | @PeterMasiar - in this way, scientific method existed "from the beginning" and we loose any benefit from using the locution in order to understand what is peculiar aboit science. Have you ever tried to read Parmenides poem ? See here for text and translation; if you really think that it can be "similar" to Newton's Principia... | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 14:26 | comment | added | Peter M. - stands for Monica | see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#History | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 13:12 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |