<P> There are few explicit discussions of scientific methodologies in surviving records from early cultures . The most that can be inferred about the approaches to undertaking science in this period stems from descriptions of early investigations into nature , in the surviving records . An Egyptian medical textbook , the Edwin Smith papyrus , ( c. 1600 BCE ) , applies the following components : examination , diagnosis , treatment and prognosis , to the treatment of disease , which display strong parallels to the basic empirical method of science and according to G.E.R. Lloyd played a significant role in the development of this methodology . The Ebers papyrus ( c. 1550 BCE ) also contains evidence of traditional empiricism . </P>
<P> There are few explicit discussions of scientific methodologies in surviving records from early cultures . The most that can be inferred about the approaches to undertaking science in this period stems from descriptions of early investigations into nature , in the surviving records . An Egyptian medical textbook , the Edwin Smith papyrus , ( c. 1600 BCE ) , applies the following components : examination , diagnosis , treatment and prognosis , to the treatment of disease , which display strong parallels to the basic empirical method of science and according to G.E.R. Lloyd played a significant role in the development of this methodology . The Ebers papyrus ( c. 1550 BCE ) also contains evidence of traditional empiricism . </P>
who was the first to use the scientific method
who was the first to use the scientific method
An Egyptian medical textbook
An Egyptian medical textbook