The Scientific Method

What are the steps of the scientific method?

• Observation, Hypothesis, and Experimentation.

• Experimentation, observation, and conclusion.

• Hypothesis, experimentation, and observation.

• Observation, experimentation, hypothesis.

What important discovery did Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham make while he was under house arrest?

• He discovered that light travels in curvy lines.

• He observed that the image projected in a camera obscura is inverted.

• Invented the first instant camera.

• Demostrated that light can not be studied.

What was a key difference in how ancient civilizations and the early Greek philosophers approached understanding the world?

• The ancient civilizations relied on experimentation, while the Greeks used myths.

• The Greeks focused on observation, while ancient civilizations used logic.

• Ancient civilizations observed patterns, while the Greeks sought natural explanations and used reasoning.

• Both groups relied solely on intuition to understand the world.

What important scientific contribution did the Islamic Empire make?

• The development of the modern scientific method.

• The invention of the press.

• Advances in algebra

• The discovery of gravity.

What was Ibn al-Haytham's crucial contribution to the scientific method?

• Trust only in observation.

• Emphasize logical reasoning without proof. .

• Test the hypothesis through experiments.

• Document the findings without sharing them.

What we don't know is as important as what we