New event (1 jan 1629 ano – 1 jan 1695 ano)

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Christian Huygens (1629 - 1695). He argued that science and mathematics were actually different fields, and could not be
treated the same way. The distinction he made between the two was the idea of proof. He stated that mathematics and geometry could prove something beyond
doubt, whereas science can never prove something emphatically; merely give a probability that a certain finding is true.
Huygens was the first proponent of the hypothetico-deductive method [27], where a scientist proposes a hypothesis [24] and then tries to deduce the probability that it is correct, through observational and empirical observation
- developed the idea that scientists could approach the truth by constantly refining experiments
and increasing the probability of their hypothesis being correct. This period saw the first divergence of the history of the philosophy of science from metaphysical philosophy.
Newton argued that any scientific undertaking should begin with analysis, where a scholar performed observations and experiments and
then made conclusions depending upon he results.
-His viewpoint was christened synthesis, where these inductive conclusions should be applied to the universe as a whole, to build up a
model of the universe

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