aristotle did early work in creating the scientific method.
who did early work in creating the scientific method?
aristotle
the history of scientific method considers changes in the methodology of scientific inquiry, as distinct from the history of science itself. the development of rules for scientific reasoning has not been straightforward; scientific method has been the subject of intense and recurring debate throughout the history of science, and eminent natural philosophers and scientists have argued for the primacy of one or another approach to establishing scientific knowledge. despite the disagreements about approaches, scientific method has advanced in definite steps. rationalist explanations of nature, including atomism, appeared both in ancient greece in the thought of leucippus and democritus, and in ancient india, in the nyaya, vaisesika and buddhist schools, while charvaka materialism rejected inference as a source of knowledge in favour of an empiricism that was always subject to doubt. aristotle pioneered scientific method in ancient greece alongside his empirical biology and his work on logic, rejecting a purely deductive framework in favour of generalisations made from observations of nature.
history of scientific method
bullet::::- david hume was the person who first pointed out the problem of induction.





























bullet::::- karl popper offered one solution, falsifiability





























section::::scientific method concepts.:scientific creativity.





























bullet::::- tacit knowledge





























section::::scientific method concepts.:deviations from the scientific method.





























bullet::::- bad science





























bullet::::- junk science





























bullet::::- pseudoscience





























bullet::::- pathological science





























section::::scientific method concepts.:critique of scientific method.





























bullet::::- paul feyerabend argued that the search for a definitive scientific method was misplaced, and even counterproductive.





























bullet::::- imre lakatos attempted to bridge the gap between popper and kuhn.





























bullet::::- sociology of scientific knowledge





























bullet::::- scientism





























section::::scientific method concepts.:relationship of scientific method to technology.
outline of scientific method