Andreas Vesalius: The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method

People use the scientific method unintentionally almost everyday. We use the scientific method when we are driving, cooking, in some video games, etc. This method has become extremely helpful and has been used a large amount of times. The scientific method is process where you state a hypothesis, then experiment, collect data/make observations, and draw conclusions. It has given us a better understanding of the world and has helped us discover new truths. Scientists have been given the opportunity to change basic beliefs about the world because of the new principles they have been able to discover from using the scientific method.

Andreas Vesalius’s discoveries changed the way people looked at human anatomy for over a thousand of years (“Andreas”). Most information about the human anatomy before Vesalius was from Galen (“Andreas Vesalius”). Galen gathered his information about human anatomy by dissecting animals. From his experiments he believed that human anatomy and animal anatomy were very similar to each other (“Andreas

One of Boyle’s biggest contributions to science was telling people how they should use the scientific method in research.“He was the first person to write specific experimental guidance for other scientists, telling them the importance of achieving reliable, repeatable results.” He also emphasized how people should repeat their own experiments to get more accurate results. Throughout his research he continually looked back on Galileo’s work. Galileo believed the world could be explained through mathematics. Later on Boyle went on to prove that air follows mathematical laws. This discovery is known as Boyle’s Law. Boyle’s Law is a gas law stating the relationship between volume and pressure while temperature is held a constant. He also stated how the movement of particles affects