Thursday, September 17, 2009

Scientific Revolition: The Scientific Method

The scientific revolution was a new way of thinking that the challenged these outdated ideas.
Long ago, the idea of science is from ancient Greeks and Romans, or from Bible.
The scientific revolution can be seen as a reaction against a medieval Aristotelian model of scientific explanation which stressed the internal essential nature of physical objects and the final cause connected with this internal nature. Medieval mode is an action that is explained by the object's internal nature which moved it to its final goal or telos. This mode was seen to be circular or empty because the only explanation that could be given of an object's essential form or internal nature was in terms of the object's actions.
This canused Galileo to reject the ideas of a secret internal nature as the cause of a things actions. Since it was impossible to perceive and served no explanatory function the idea of an internal nature was rejected. Instead it was seen that only some of the external properties of the object really objectively characterize the object and that these can be used to explain the other external properties.
A method of hypothesis and experiment under simplified and idealized conditions was devised to isolate out the primry properties and discover the laws that connected them to secondary properties. A model of how the world is was tested by deriving perdictions about observation from it.
And so this is how the scientific method goes like.

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