HLTB15H3 Lecture 4: lecture 4 notes.docx
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Involves the systematic study of the phenomena of interest by detailed observation using the senses often aided by technical instruments, accurate measurement and experimentation. The important feature of scientific method is that it is systematic. Experimentation - explore observations and answer questions. Search for cause and effect relationships in nature. Deduction - to draw a conclusion from. 1600 bc - edwin smith papyrus: components: examination, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Inductive reasoning - draws conclusions from a observations. 320 bc aristotle: subdivision of knowledge (physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, and biology) 300 bc euclid"s elements: geometry - book ii of the elements (university of pennsylvania) 200 bc first catalogued library: royal library of alexandria. 21st century: roger bacon - described a repeating cycle of observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and verification, controlled experiments- by francis bacon - novum organum (1622) induction. Identifies similarities within a group of particulars in order to arrive at a general principle or statement.
