HISTORY OF THE WORLD SCIENTIFIC METHOD

- The scientific method is another important

What is Science?
- study of nature and behavior of the material and
physical universe; based on observation, experiment
and measurement and the formulation of laws to
describe these scientific facts in general terms
- the observation, identification, description,
experiment, investigation and theoretical
explanation of phenomena
- dealing with ta body of facts or truths systematically
arranged and showing the operation of general laws
2 types of science
- both utilizes the powers of observation, scientific
method and mathematics
1. Applied science – describes the process of
developing new technology and products for
consumers and offer results from experiment and
knowledge from pure science
• Seeks to put the existing knowledge to use
2. Pure science – science of discovery
• More concerned with expanding and testing
the existing body of scientific knowledge
component of modern science, as it describes the
objective basis for testing and communicating results
from scientific investigations.
- Using the scientific method, a scientist will form an
educated guess regarding the outcome of a process
or experiment and then use various tests, which
isolate one or more variables, in order to obtain an
objective and certifiable outcome.
- If the hypothesis does not match up with the
conclusion of the experiment, then the hypothesis
must be modified to meet the outcomes.
FLOW OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD :
1. Observation (Identify Problem)
2. Research
3. Form Hypothesis
4. Test Hypothesis (thru expt.)
5. Data Gathering
6. Analyze Data
7. Draw conclusion
8. Share results

Which came first, SCIENCE or

TECHNOLOGY?
- Science came first since it already existed since the
day upon which the universe was created.
- Although we discovered science late, it was already
there.
- Science is investigated, Technology is created.
- According to Albert Einstein, “Science is
investigating that which already is; engineers create
that which has never been.”
- Everything can be explained by science. We have not
created science, it was there before us and before
everything.

TECHNOLOGY – Application of science to develop new

devices, systems or methods

MODERN SCIENCE
- Began in 1543
- The scientific revolution is held traditionally by most
historians since 1543 when the books De Humani
Corporis Fabrica (On the Workings of the Humsn
Who invented the Scientific method?
Body) by Andreas Vesalius, and also De
- The development of the scientific method had its
Revolutionibus by Nicolaus Copernicus was printed.
earliest beginnings in the works of Parmenides. It
was set forth systematically by Aristotle in his
FATHER OF MODERN SCIENCE
Organon.
- Galileo Galilei: pioneered the scientific method, first
to use a refracting relescope
- But the scientific method achieved its first modern
- Astronomical discoveries:
form in the work of Roger Bacon, who began the
o “Father of Modern Astronomy”
systematic use of mathematics in science.
o “Father of Modern Physics”
- Even Albert Einsten called him father of Modern
Science