First, it’s important to note that there hasn’t been just a single the scientific method which we can point to having been invented at a single time and space. There have been successively refined methods of generating scientific knowledge developed over time. Scientific methods were possessed by:
at least one person who wrote an Egyptian medical textbook, (c. 1600 BCE)
This is important because it means in answering the question I’m not looking for factors which caused something to happen at a very particular time and place, e.g. not what made Francis Bacon very special or the like. Instead, I’m looking for factors which held over Europe (and the Middle East) for over a thousand years.
Is there something which you think wasn’t precise enough in those sections?
Despite listing the Arabs as having had one of the instances of “scientific methods over time” you latter say in your conclusion:
″ Overall, I do conclude a firm conclusion that even I’m not sure of the details, there were almost certainly concrete systematic factors which caused Europe to develop modern science and the scientific method even when China and the Islamic world didn’t.”
It’s unclear towards what exactly you are pointing here when you say the scientific method .
On the other hand, I don’t think I would have written the comment if I had read the whole article at the time of writing it.
Indeed, this is the subject of my Abridged History of the Scientific Method and So when was “science invented?” sections.
Is there something which you think wasn’t precise enough in those sections?
Despite listing the Arabs as having had one of the instances of “scientific methods over time” you latter say in your conclusion:
It’s unclear towards what exactly you are pointing here when you say the scientific method .
On the other hand, I don’t think I would have written the comment if I had read the whole article at the time of writing it.