The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural...
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"political science" as a separate field is a rather late arrival in terms of social sciences, analyzing political power and the impact that it had on history has...
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the history of science fiction "the history of humanity's changing attitudes toward space and time ... the history of our growing understanding of the...
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The history of science and technology (HST) is a field of history that examines the development of the understanding of the natural world (science) and...
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The history of science spans the majority of the historical record, with the earliest written records of identifiable predecessors to modern science dating...
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major factor in the modernization of China. Much of the early Western work in the history of science in China was done by Joseph Needham and his Chinese...
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The history of agricultural science is a sub-field of the history of agriculture which looks at the scientific advancement of techniques and understanding...
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The history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science. Although...
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The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments...
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Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical...
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The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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The sociology of the history of science—related to sociology and philosophy of science, as well as the entire field of science studies—has in the 20th...
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the study of materials, and eventually the interdisciplinary study of materials science emerged from the fusion of these studies. The history of materials...
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The history of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent begins with the prehistoric human activity of the Indus Valley Civilisation to the early...
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Africa. The history of science and technology in Africa since then has, however, received relatively little attention compared to other regions of the world...
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The history of science fiction films parallels that of the motion picture industry as a whole, although it took several decades before the genre was taken...
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This is the history of science and technology in modern Japan. In the natural sciences, the number of Japanese winners of the Nobel Prize has been second...
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Museum of the History of Science is a museum attached to the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, which houses an extensive collection of scientific...
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Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts...
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Science in classical antiquity encompasses inquiries into the workings of the world or universe aimed at both practical goals (e.g., establishing a reliable...
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The History of Science Museum in Broad Street, Oxford, England, holds a leading collection of scientific instruments from Middle Ages to the 19th century...
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Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions...
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Auxiliary (or ancillary) sciences of history are scholarly disciplines which help evaluate and use historical sources and are seen as auxiliary for historical...
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Science and technology in the United States has a long history, producing many important figures and developments in the field. The United States of America...
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historiography of science or the historiography of the history of science is the study of the history and methodology of the sub-discipline of history, known...
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The History of Science Society (HSS), founded in 1924, is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science. The society...
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Science education is the teaching and learning of science to school children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science...
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Modern science owes much of its heritage to ancient Greek philosophers; influential work in astronomy, mechanics, geometry, medicine, and natural history was...
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Science in the ancient world encompasses the earliest history of science from the protoscience of prehistory and ancient history to late antiquity. In...
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Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the...
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