Why couldn't the ancient Greeks follow the scientific method?

Answer 1

If it were not for the ancient Greeks, we would still be in the dark ages.

Answer 2

The ancient Greeks invented a lot of what constitutes the scientific method.

Some Greeks were more scientific than others.

Your question is too vague, I'm not sure what you are really looking for.

Answer 3

In addition to the one or two good suggestions already made, remember that the Greeks believed in a pretty weird set of gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. All their mythology related how these superhero types were intermittently interfering in worldly events and making strange things happen for their own benefit or pleasure, especially to punish human arrogance. That's not a very good background against which a scientist could develop a method of observation and deduction. The gods might poke their fingers into events, just to make his observations wrong, or might wait until he thought he was right and then . . . POW! take that.

A limited amount of this capricious kind of heavenly interference in earthly events is still found in the written traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, they mostly support and encourage a cause-and-effect view of the natural world, in a way that Greek, Roman and Norse mythology didn't.

Answer 4

The belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually was embedded in Greek philosophy. However the scientific method looks to the physical world (the world revealed by our senses) for conformation of theories and as arbiter of "truth". Much of the advances that the Greeks made in science was done after the the were conquered by Rome, and bare the marks of Rome's practicality not Greek philosophy.

Answer 5

ALL incorrect! The philosophy and prepare of historic Greece is the muse of the scientific approach. technology and modern Civilization have been born in historic Greece. So became Humanism, the theory that people have sufficient means in se to sparkling up lots of the subjects of life and get to the backside of a minimum of many of the secrets and techniques of the Universe. With the different races of guy the "secrets and techniques" of the Universe that have been revealed got here by way of madmen eating hallucinogens and babbling like maniacs whilst clergymen interepreted this palaver. The Greeks suggested "fact ought to comply with actuality". the different peoples of the Earth for the main area suggested "To Hell with actuality. We prefer friendly Fairy-memories." They have been the 1st human beings to realize the very incontrovertible fact that ideals ought to have an evidential empirical foundation as unfavourable to mere recognition of a concept by using fact it particularly is a convention. The Geometer Euclid had the comparable ordinary style of intelligence and genius and rational questioning as has Stephen Hawking. The spirit is the comparable. Greek philosophers got here up with fairly some suggestions, and a large many incorrect, yet whilst they did err occassionally, they have been a minimum of on the main suitable direction it relatively is extra effective than you need to assert for many of their contemporaries the place fact became the decree of the King or the gods.

Answer 6

The ancient Greeks laid the foundation for the scientific method.

Answer 7

Their faith in using reason to solve problems made them indifferent to using experiments or observations to solve problems. Some Greek philosophers even doubted the existence of evidence in the way we use the word (these were the skeptics).

Answer 8

the Ancient Greek invented the Scientific Method!!!!who IS your teacher?? send me their names so that i may render them
up to "educational censure" and a goodly dunking in the lake to see if they are "witches" or "born-again Christians" who believe the world is 8000 years old and will bridge no heretic to say otherwise!!they discovered steam power and utilized it to "mysteriously open" the doors of their temples with no "apparent" human agency!!they invented algebra,geometry,physics,architecture,water and wind power,drainge of swamps,damming of streams,irrigation of upland orchards,olive presses,sailing ships,rowing ships,animal husbandry,the bulding od centralized trading facilities in "agoras"!!every word that we ,as scholars use in the study of medicine,science,physics,geometry and the nomenclature of every species,genus ,family of creature is in either the "greek" or "roman/latin" language!!!would your "TEACHER" think that that was a co-incidence????EUCLIDIAN GEOMETRY..SEE EUCLID/HIPPOCRATES....SEE FATHER OF MEDICINE,the hippocratic oath/socrates/demosthenes/pericles/homer/!!without the sciences of government,natural sciences based on observation/science of mechanics and engineering being codified and rendered in eternal linguistic purity in GREEK there would be no world today....period!!!don't forget thre intricately carved bronze calculating astronomical computer found on a sunken greek ship from a very remote period in history which it is believe coul show the movement of the planets,the elliptic,the sun and the moon and also "perhaps"eclipses!!

Answer 9

Could you explain what the scientific method is? Maybe they didn't know about it.

Answer 10

they were busy following the socratic method instead