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Research Report #10

Authors Who Acknowledge the Existence
of the Scientific Method in Publications

Many authors acknowledge the existence of the scientific method, and many include a version of a formula for it. In my small library alone in 1996, these authors are among the many who acknowledge the existence of the scientific method. Many advocate teaching the scientific method or teaching scientific method.

Jevons (1887)
Strong (1906)
Spahr (1930)
Mees (1930)
Russell (1931)
Kelley (1932)
Dewey (1933)
Cohen (1934)
Norton (1936)
Maas (1939)
Cannon (1945)
Black (1946)
Bronstein (1947)
Butts (1947)
Anthony (1948)
Bittle (1950)
Brown (1950)
Vance (1950)
Flesch (1951)
Hunter (1951)
Peterson (1952)
Vinache (1952)
Moulton (1953)
Pettit (1953)
Black (1954)
Brown (1955)
Buchler (1955)
Ames (1956)
Skinner (1956)
Beck (1957)
Beveridge (1957)
Pearson (1957)
Sperling (1957)
Crooks (1958)
Mehlberg (1958)
Cohen (1959)
Murray (1959)
Lachman (1960)
Mouly (1960)
Klotz (1961)
Nagel (1961)
Tignor (1961)
Ackoff (1962)
Bronowski (1962)
Fowler (1962)
Goldner (1962)
Mason (1962)
Van Dalen (1962)
Beauchamp (1963)
Davis (1963)
Mouley (1963)
Patterson (1963)
Ruchlis (1963)
Walker (1963)
 Arons (1964)
McCarthy (1964)
Pauling (1964)
Titus (1964)
Farmer & Richman (1965)
Poppy & Wilson (1965)
Krauskopf & Beiser (1966)
Bernstein (1967)
Lastrucci (1967)
Weaver (1967)
Gould (1968)
Weatherall (1968)
Whewell (1968)
Crombie & Hoskin (1969)
Delaney (1969)
Nourse (1969)
Simon (1969)
Cotton (1970)
Dellow (1970)
Dressler (1970)
Hershey & Lugo (1970)
Anderson (1971)
Borg & Gall (1971)
Easley (1971)
Margenau (1971)
Wilson (1971)
Ary et al. (1972)
Feibleman (1972)
Jones (1972)
Muhler (1972)
Killefer (1973)
Poppy (1973)
McConnell (1974)
Slaatte (1974)
Light & Kellner (1975)
Monte (1975)
Amoult (1976)
Ehlers (1976)
Kemp (1976)
Adler (1977)
Brown (1977)
Champagne & Klopfer (1977)
Grmek (1977)
Johnson (1977)
Mouly (1978)
Keyes (1979)
Stark (1979)
Hein (1980)
Mannoia (1980)
Moravcsik (1980)
Rubinstein & Pfeiffer (1980)
Boykess (1981)
Mallow (1981)
 Beller (1982)
Copi (1982)
Ackoff (1984)
Augros (1984)
Hayward (1984)
Moore (1984)
Olivio (1984)
Anderson (1985)
Carin (1985)
Koen (1985)
Ornstein (1985)
Selye (1985)
Abriscato (1986)
Asimov (1986)
McKay (1986)
Newman (1986)
Saul (1986)
Harre (1987)
Hayward (1987)
Hester (1987)
Kramer (1987)
Nolan (1987)
Perkins (1987)
Wilbraham (1987)
Spielberg (1987)
Bova (1988)
Johnson (1988)
Kuhn (1988)
Abramson (1989)
Brown (1989)
Carratello (1989)
Davis (1989)
Fields (1989)
Holt (1989)
Payne (1989)
Tolman & Campbell (1989)
Watkins (1989)
Zumdahl (1989)
Alexander (1990)
Browne & Keeley (1990)
Hein (1990)
Hickman (1990)
Larkin (1990)
McIntosh & Caprio (1990)
Paul (1990)
Carle (1991)
Dunkhase & Penick (1991)
McQuarrie (1991)
Burns (1992)
Hewitt (1992)
White (1992)
Keeports & Morier (1994)
Klapper (1995)


Life Science Library, The Scientist (1964)

World Book Encyclopedia (1975)

Encyclopedia Britannica (1974)

Harper Collins Dictionary of Biology (1991)

New Encyclopedia Britannica (1994)


Biology Scientific Method

Here are just some of the authors in the biology textbook field who include the scientific method in their works:

Vance & Miller (1950)
Weekstein (1960)
Vance (1963)
Brenner (1967)
Keeton (1972)
Fessenden (1976)
Mader (1976,1985)
Emmel (1977)
Heimler & Lockard (1981)
 Perkins (1981)
Kaskel et al. (1981)
Federico & Schwartz (1983)
Bierer et al. (1985)
Curtis & Barnes (1985)
Monroe (1985)
Brum & McKane (1986)
Arms & Kamp (1987)
 Johnson (1987)
Brown (1988)
Audesirk & Audesirk (1989)
Brum (1989)
Jantzen & Michel (1989)
Alexander et al. (1990)
Bernstein (1990)
Hopson (1990)