Scientific method. The explicitly reasoned about scientific method involving observation, hypothesis, prediction, testing, is new. The hypothesis is the importa

Scientific method. The explicitly reasoned about scientific method involving observation, hypothesis, prediction, testing, is new. The hypothesis is the important bit, the thing that’s new. Trying things and seeing what happens was not new in the 1500s or 1600s. The scientific method was. No doubt there were people who had similar ideas before Francis Bacon but they didn’t write them down and explain them in any way that we’d recognize as the scientific method.