Before revision: Sociology of scientific knowledge Scientism Relationship of scientific method to technology Science and technology studies Theories of technology Aesthetics in the scientific method Elegance Beauty Occam's razor History of scientific method Main articles: History of scientific method, Timeline of the history of scientific method, and History of science Publications Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine Roger Bacon's Opus Majus Francis Bacon's Novum Organum Persons influential in the development of scientific method Alhazen Francis Bacon Galileo Galilei René Descartes Charles Sanders Peirce Why didn't the scientific method arise elsewhere?
After revision: Sociology of scientific knowledge Scientism Relationship of scientific method to technology Science and technology studies Theories of technology Aesthetics in the scientific method Elegance Occam's razor History of scientific method Main articles: History of scientific method, Timeline of the history of scientific method, and History of science Publications Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine Roger Bacon's Opus Majus Francis Bacon's Novum Organum Persons influential in the development of scientific method Alhazen Francis Bacon Galileo Galilei René Descartes Charles Sanders Peirce Why didn't the scientific method arise elsewhere?