The Scientific method

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The Scientific method
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Aristotle

• (384 BC 322 BC)
• He was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato
  and teacher of Alexander the Great.
• He created the scientific method.

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Galileo Galilei

• Feb.1564  Jan. 1642
• He was an Italian physicist, mathematician,
  astronomer, and philosopher who played a major
  role in the Scientific Revolution.
• He perfectioned the scientific method.

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Francesco Redi

• Feb. 1626 Mar 1697
• He was an Italian physician, naturalist, and
  poet.
• He used the scientific method to prove what he
  called the Spontaneus Generation Theory, from
  Aristotles Abiogenesis Theory.

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Aristotles Abiogenesis

• Was a theory that said that said that life on
  Earth could have arisen from inanimate matter.

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Redis Experiment

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The Scientific Method

• Observation
• Question
• Hypothesis
• Prediction
• Experiment or observation
• Conclusion
• Communication

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Example

1. O On a picnic day, I watched a fly that drowned
   with the rain and after being still on the salt,
   it began to move.
2. Q Can flies revive?
3. H Flies can revive from drowning with salt.
4. P If the hypothesis is correct, a drowned fly
   will revive with salt.
5. E Put 2 flies underwater util they doesnt move.
   Then take them out and leave only one on the
   salt.
6. C The fly exposed to salt revives.