History of the Scientific Method

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    First comprehensive documents categorising and subdividing knowledge

    First comprehensive documents categorising and subdividing knowledge, dividing knowledge into different areas by Aristotle,(physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, and biology). Aristotle's Posterior Analytics defends the ideal of science as necessary demonstration from axioms known with certainty.
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    History of Scientific Method

  • Sep 20, 1021

    Book of Optics

    Alhazen introduces the experimental method and combines observations, experiments and rational arguments in his Book of Optics

  • First Scientific Method

    First Scientific method (René Descartes)

  • First description of a controlled experiment

    First description of a controlled experiment using identical populations with only one variable: James Lind's research into Scurvy among sailors.

  • Adam

    First working prototype of a "robot scientist" able to perform independent experiments to test hypotheses and interpret findings without human guidance.