Editing Outline of scientific method (section)

== History of scientific method ==
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===Publications===
* [[Ibn al-Haytham]]'s ''[[Book of Optics]]''
* [[Avicenna]]'s ''[[The Canon of Medicine]]''
* [[Roger Bacon]]'s ''[[Opus Majus]]''
* [[Francis Bacon]]'s ''[[Novum Organum]]''
* [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]''

=== Persons influential in the development of scientific method ===

* [[Alhazen]]
* [[Francis Bacon]]
* [[Galileo Galilei]]
* [[Isaac Newton]]
* [[René Descartes]]
* [[Charles Sanders Peirce]]