The Rise of Experiment
Overview
The publication in 1704 of Isaac Newton's (1642-1727) second major treatise, the Opticks, came at a significant moment in the development of experimental science...
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Experimental Organisms
For over a century, research scientists have studied experimental, or model, organisms to examine the mechanisms of inheritance and development. In more recent times, researcher...
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Experiments
Sociologists usually reserve the term experiment for studies in which the researcher manipulates one or more key independent variables; that is, for studies in which the experimenter contr...
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Experimentation
Experimentation is a foundational activity in modern science. Although several Renaissance thinkers prepared the way toward modern concepts of experimentation, Francis Bacon's N...
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Experimentation and Instrumentation
Experiment, William Herschel wrote, is a matter of "putting in action causes and agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations,...
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The Rise of Experiment
Experimental Organisms
Experiments
Experimentation
Experimentation and Instrumentation