The early civilizations in recorded history, such as the Babylonians, Greeks, Indians, Egyptians, Nubians, Iranians, Chinese, and Maya performed methodical observations of the night sky.
Writing in the American Journal of Archaeology in 1941, Oscar Broneer wrote that Dr. Thompson's 1940 book "The Tholos of Athens and its Predecessors" exhibited "the author's methodical observation and careful recording of all the evidence bearing on the subject; and, on the other, his ingenuity and the soundness of his judgment in the interpretation of existing remains".
Nansen, with cruder instruments, did the same, establishing some guiding principles for methodical observation.
Historically, medical records of some kind have always been kept and, in keeping with the tradition of careful methodical scientific observation, these have frequently been developed into disease registers, through which the incidence, course and health service use of specified diseases can be monitored and investigated.
His method would be grounded in methodical collection of data and observations, coupled with correction of our senses (and particularly, strictures for the avoidance of the Idols, as he called them, kinds of systematic errors to which naïve observers are prone).
The Times article peppered a description of the match with observations of Ashe's methodical manner: On the changeovers Ashe sat still, eyes closed, meditating, relaxing for the task ahead.
The scientific dimension of the Observations is in part methodical and in part substantive.
It was immediately met with the acclaim of major naturalists, who were impressed by White's methodical approach and keen sense of observation.
Prior critical realist research into organizational dynamics, for example by Porter (2000), has prescribed a series of methodical steps: form hypotheses; test hypotheses against empirical observations; reformulate hypotheses.
In the course of these experiments, we made an unexpected observation, which is relevant mainly from the methodical point of view, nevertheless, it cannot be omitted from this paper, since it was also encountered but not explained in other laboratories.
Discovering non-obvious user needs and creating accompanying habits is accomplished through deep observation grounded in solid behavioral theory, followed by methodical trial and error.
