Who invented the scientific method?

The question of who invented the scientific method is extremely difficult to answer, simply because it is difficult to pin down exactly where it started. read more

The question of who invented the scientific method shifts to Europe as the Renaissance began and the wisdom of the Greeks and Arabs helped Europe out of the Dark Ages. Roger Bacon (1214 - 1284) is credited as the first scholar to promote inductive reasoning as part of the scientific method. read more

The Scientific Revolution reached its zenith with Isaac Newton, who made perhaps the greatest contribution to the history of the scientific method. He was the first to really understand that the scientific method needed both deduction and induction. read more