As we learned in the text this week, no scientific hypothesis, theory or law is valid unless its predictions are in agreement with with experimental results (Shipman, 2016, p. 4). I think Sir Isaac Newton's application of the scientific method made him more successful in his research. Though there were others involved in the "scientific revolution" of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Newton stands out in his work reevaluating concepts of motion, and devising laws of motion that we still hold as science today (Shipman, p. 51). The experiment element of the scientific method is crucial. The test of a hypothesis must be able to be duplicated by others. As Newton noted, his research was developed by him "standing on the shoulders of giants,"
