Thursday, September 11, 2008

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method Is being used all the time for scientist to see if they can prove or disprove. It all satrted when a scientist named Aristotle started to prove things like how many teeth are in a man and a womens mouth without checking inside their mouth and if a heavy object falls faster than a samller object. Today, Scientist uses the scientific method to see if they can prove or disprove a theory or an idea.

Alot of scientist uses the scientifc method because they don't just want to accept and idea or a theory, they want to have their own conclusion to see if they agree or disagree. One example is when Issac Newton tried to explain the law of gravity that Aristotle talked about. In the end, Aristotle was wrong. This is why the Scientific Revolution was created, to see if scientist agree or diagree a certain thing that one scientist says. Right now, the scientific method is still being used all the time.

Another example is when he tried to prove that heavy objects will fall faster than smaller objects but when an itallian scientist named Galileo tested it, he proved Aristotle wrong. Before the scientific method was made, most scholars would get theirs ideas fom the greeks ad romans, or from the bible. Now that the method is made, scientist can prove things more easily and more better.

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