In scientific method

Clair C. Patterson, T. J. Chow, and M. Murozumi. The Possibility of Measuring Variations in the Intensity of Worldwide Lead Smelting during Medieval and Ancient Times Using Lead Aerosol Deposits in Polar Snow Strata. In Scientific Methods in Medieval Archaeology. Rainer Berger, ed. Berkeley University of California Press, 1970, pp. 339-350. 

R.H. Ottewill, in Scientific Methods for the Study of Polymer Colloids and Their Applications , F. Candau and R.H. Ottewill (eds.), NATO ASI Series, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1990, 129. 

Middle Ages the Radiochronologist s View, in Scientific Methods in Medieval Archaeology, pp. 89-140, University of California, Berkeley, 1970. 

Observations are a prelude to experimentation, but they are preconditioned by a framework of peripheral knowledge. While there is an element of luck in being at the right place and time to make important observations, as Pasteur stated, chance favours only the prepared mind . A fault in scientific method is that the design of the experiment and choice of method may influence the outcome - the decisions involved may not be as objective as some scientists assume. Another flaw is that radical alternative hypotheses may be overlooked in favour of a modification to the original hypothesis, and yet just such leaps in thinking have frequently been required before great scientific advances. 

Students engaged in scientific method through researching their products, in the absence of a laboratory. Frustration in grandiose project design and... 

This method of teaching of chemistry is based upon the process of finding out the results by attacking a problem in a number of definite steps. It is possible to train the students in scientific method. In this method student is involved in finding out the answer to a given scientific problem and thus actually it is a type of discovery method. 

It has already been pointed out that two basic aims of teaching chemistry are (i) development of scientific attitude and (ii) training in scientific methods. 

Traditional philosophical theories of knowledge, including those of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Locke, were about the acquisition of knowledge and, more specifically, about methods for acquiring knowledge. The concern for inquiry and its methods continued in nineteenth-century philosophy of science and even influenced the development of several sciences, but that concern all but vanished in twentieth-century philosophy, where it was replaced by an exclusive focus on the notion of justification of belief. In consequence, except for inadvertence, philosophy has been almost entirely removed from the most striking developments in scientific methods during this century the instrumentation and automation of inquiry. 

In previous section we have discussed some ways for developing scientific attitude and in this section our aim is to concentrate mainly on training in scientific methods. 

Giunta, Carmen J. (1996). The Discovery of Argon A Case Study in Scientific Method. Available from . 

GastAP (1990) In Scientific methods for the study of polymer, colloids and their applications. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, p 311... 

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