Four Rules of Scientific Reasoning byIsaac Newton English physicist & mathematician, 1686
Sir Isaac Newton was significant contributor to Scientific Revolution
-believed that scientific theory should be coupled with rigorousexperimentation
-published 4 rules of scientific reasoning in Principia Mathematica (1686)that form part of modern approaches to science:
1- admit no more causes of natural things than are both true andsufficient to explain their appearances,
2- to the same natural effect, assign the same causes,
3- qualities of bodies, which are found to belong to all bodies withinexperiments, are to be esteemed universal, and
4- propositions collected from observation of phenomena should beviewed as accurate or very nearly true until contradicted by otherphenomena