History of science

Aristotle ( Greek: Aristotelēs 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aristotle"

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, freemason and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Albans in 1621; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Bacon"

The Hamar Experiment and the Refutation of Aether Dragging ...more on Wikipedia about "Hamar experiment"

The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science that emerged in the 20th century. The progression, from mechanical inventions and mathematical theories towards the modern concepts and machines, formed a major academic field and the basis of a massive world-wide industry. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of computer science"

Early Western precursors of economics engaged in scholastic theological debates during the Middle Ages. An important topic of discussion was the determination of the just price of a good. In the religious wars following the Reformation in the 16th century, ideas about free trade appeared, later formulated in legal terms by Hugo de Groot or Grotius (Mare liberum). ...more on Wikipedia about "History of economic thought"

The history of evolutionary thought has a long history since the idea of biological evolution has existed since ancient times, but the modern theory wasn't established until the 18th and 19th centuries, with scientists such as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Darwin greatly emphasized the difference between his two main points: establishing the fact of evolution, and proposing the theory of natural selection to explain the mechanism of evolution. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of evolutionary thought"

The history of genetics is generally held to have started in 1865 when an Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel published his work on pea plants. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of genetics"

Linguistics as a study endeavors to describe and explain the human faculty of language and has been of scholarly interest throughout recorded history. Contemporary linguistics is the outcome of a continuous European intellectual tradition originating in Ancient Greece. India and China both produced native schools of linguistic thought; some of the achievements of Indian linguists precede equivalent Western developments by more than a thousand years. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of linguistics"

:Note: The contents of this page are expected to change as consensus is reached. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of pseudoscience"

Science is a body of verifiable empirical knowledge, a global community of scholars, and a set of techniques for investigating the universe known as the scientific method. The history of science traces these phenomena and their precursors back in time, all the way to human prehistory. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of science"

The history of science and technology (HST) is a field of history which examines how humanity's understanding of science and technology has changed over the millennia. Without this understanding, development of new technologies would have been improbable. This field of history also studies the cultural, economic, and political impacts of scientific innovation. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of science and technology"

See: Ancient Indian science and technology ...more on Wikipedia about "History of science in early cultures"

See main article: Islamic science ...more on Wikipedia about "History of science in the Middle Ages"

The history of the scientific method is indivisible from the history of science itself. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the scientific method" Just http://www.shortopedia.com way

The history of thermodynamics is a core strand in the history of physics and an important one in the history of science. Due to the relevence of thermodynamics to much of science and technology, its history is finely woven with the developments of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, magnetism, and chemical kinetics, to more distant applied fields such as meteorology, information theory, and physiology, and to technological developments such as the steam engine, internal combustion engine, cryogenics and electricity generation. The development of thermodynamics both drove and has been driven by atomic theory. It also, albeit in a subtle manner, motivated new directions in probability and statistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of thermodynamics"

During the Islamic Golden Age ( 750 - 1500) philosophers, scientists and engineers of the Islamic world contributed enormously to technology, both by preserving earlier traditions and by adding their own inventions and innovations. Scientific and intellectual achievements blossomed in the Golden age. ...more on Wikipedia about "Islamic Golden Age"

* Scientists of Faith-An article relating to the book Scientists of Faith by Dan Graves ISBN 082542724X ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Christian thinkers in science"

(List of discredited substances) * Caloric ...more on Wikipedia about "List of discredited substances"

(List of famous experiments) * Robert Millikan's oil-drop experiment, which suggests that electric charge occurs as quanta (whole units), ( 1909) ...more on Wikipedia about "List of famous experiments"

For lists of scientists see: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of scientists"

Metrication or metrification is the process of converting from the various other systems of units used throughout the world to the SI metric system. This process began in France in the 1790s and spread over the following two centuries to all but four countries, representing 95% of the world's population. The process was completed in most of the world in the 19th and early 20th centuries, replacing numerous historical weights and measures. The countries of the former British Empire (with the exception of the United States) completed metrication during the second half of the 20th century, with the Republic of Ireland recently completing metrication on January 20 2005. Today only the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar have not officially switched to the metric system (although Liberia and Myanmar use it in practice) and the United Kingdom is currently in the process of conversion. Only France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan have seen significant popular opposition to metrication, the main objections being based on tradition, aesthetics, economical impact and distaste for measures viewed as foreign. ...more on Wikipedia about "Metrication"

Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines. Most definitions include the study of living things (e.g. biology, including botany and zoology); other definitions extend the topic to include paleontology, ecology or biochemistry, as well as parts of geology, astronomy, and physics and even meteorology. A person interested in natural history is known as a naturalist. This was predominantly an amateur activity and not an occupation. The rise of interest in natural history in Britain is linked with the tradition of herbalists and apothecarians. This grew into specialist hobbies such as the study of birds, butterflies and wildflowers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Natural history"

Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature, known in Latin as philosophia naturalis, is a term applied to the objective study of nature and the physical universe before the development of modern science. It is considered the precursor of what is now called natural science, especially physics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Natural philosophy"

The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new organ" or "instrument". This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a new system of logic he believes to be superior to the old ways of syllogism. For Bacon, finding the essence of a thing was a simple process of reduction. One must list all the things which cause the object in question, and then dismiss each one as the primary cause until only one was left. ...more on Wikipedia about "Novum Organum"

From Antiquity up to the time of the Scientific Revolution, inquiry into the workings of the universe was known as natural philosophy, but this included fields of study which today have been divorced from science. The ancient people of Western civilization who we might think of as scientists may have thought of themselves as natural philosophers. In other cases, systematic learning about the natural world was a direct outgrowth of religion, often as a project of a particular religious community. An account of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found in Bertrand Russell's History of Philosophy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pre-experimental science"

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