Who Invented the Modern Scientific Method?

[SUDOnym]

Who is credited with coming up with the modern scientific method? I think it was either Galileo or Francis Bacon...

Note, by modern scientific method I mean:

Do experiment. come up with theory to explained observations. Test this theory repeatedly with different experiments. If theory doesn't agree with an experiment, revise theory or come up with new theory.

 

[mathman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method

This is thorough discussion of the subject. The ideas seem to predate both Bacon and Galileo.