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Aristotle is recognized as the inventor of scientific method because of his refined analysis of logical implications contained in demonstrative discourse -
Ibn al-Haytham, A polymath, considered by some to be the father of modern scientific methodology, due to his emphasis on experimental data and reproducibility of its results -
Johannes Kepler "Kepler shows his keen logical sense in detailing the whole process by which he finally arrived at the true orbit. -
According to Albert Einstein, "All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics – indeed, of modern science altogether." -
naturalists like William Whewell, John Herschel, John Stuart Mill engaged in debates over "induction" and "facts" and were focused on how to generate knowledge