Friday, September 18, 2009

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

During the Scientific Revolution, scientist used sometihng called the Scientific Method to gain knowledge and information. The Scientific Method are steps scientists used to find new things about the world. The first thing u need for a scientific method is a hypothesis. A hypothesis is an educated guess based on observation. Many experiments use the scientific method. Even people today use this method, Galileo. Galileo was an Italian physicist. He was testing Aristotle's theory. How a heavier object would fall faster than a lighter object. Galileo proved Aristotle's theory was completly wrong. He dropped a heavy ball and light ball from the leaning Tower of Pisa. When he tested the experiment, the heavy and light ball reached the ground at the exact same time.

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