HIST 220 Lecture Notes - Inductive Reasoning, Scientific Method
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Set of ideas, way of thinking about the world. Set of practices equipment and methods for examining the natural world. Set of institutions that helped to codify and spread these ideas and practices. A method or procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. (from the oxford english dictionary) Clocks are set into motion by a clockmaker. Metaphor the world is a machine, set into motion by god. God is the greatest and best mechanic . Studied and taught mathematics in cambridge in the 1660s. Applied baconian scientific method to experiments about light and motion (and maybe alchemy) Worked to define mathematical equations that would explain motion.
