Francesco Redi And The First Science Experiment
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 10:00
in Psychology & Sociology
I had a question posed to me last week; 'what was the first science experiment?' The downside to knowing a lot, including copious amounts of trivia and a completely unnecessary pantheon of movie quotes, is answering a simple question simply. I was stumped because much of what we think of as science was really engineering that required some knowledge of natural laws, for example Archimedes and his bathtub or Archimedes (again) with his death ray(1), so I wanted to factor those out, but I am sure my answer was not what most people expected because it is not a famous name. Will you agree? Perhaps not, because of the term 'experiment', but even that would be something we have to argue about. read more