Bacon, Descartes & the Scientific Method

The Scientific Method

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The Scientific Revolution

During 16th and 17th centuries many events occur and changed how people think. Before they would think science is a magic and who did some experiment that seems to be a magic will be considered as a witch or a wizard.

Research

Hypothesis

Observation

Test

Analize

Conslusion

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Observes how things work. Watch how it reacts.

Research things and gather informations.

State a predicted result.

Test the experiment.

See what happens.

Conclude the result and compare to the hypothesis.

Accomplishment

Accomplishment

Accomplishment

He served as lord chanceller of England, he was knighted in 1603 and created the 1st viscount ST. alban in 1621, his work laid the foundation for the scientific revolution, he played a key role in the creation of English colonies in North America, he is credited with starting a new intellectural era.

Discovery

Scientific Method

Discovery

He is credited as the supporter of modern scientific method, he wrote “cars can be made so that without animals they will move with unbelievable rapidity,” and “flying machines can be constructed so that a man sits in the midst of the machine revolving some engines by which artificial wings are made to beat the air like a flying bird.”

Gunpower process

Discovery

He invented a hydrostatic balance, he discovered the 4 largest moons of Jupiter, stated the basic principle of relativity, he invented the improved military compass.

Galileo telescope

He is the first person to define the scientific method. The scientific process typically starts with an observation that leads to a question.

Galileo was the first to point a telescope skyward. He was able to make out mountains and craters on the moon, as well as a ribbon of diffuse light arching across the sky.

He was the first European to describe in detail the process of making gunpowder, and he proposed flying machines and motorized ships and carriages.