Science Timeline 1900–1909 ∼ Quantum Theory, Aviation Science, Genetics, Statistics German physicist Max Planck presents the quantum theory that speculates energy is emitted in pulses from heated objects in units he called quanta instead of...

Sociologists of science study the social organization of science, the relationships between science and other social institutions, social influences on the content of scientific knowledge, and public policy regarding science. The definition of the term...

Science looms as large as any aspect of the contemporary world, with multiple moral and political engagements on its own as well as through its associations with technology. Both as a positive feature of the human world and as a phenomenon against...

The study of the heavens produced the earliest surviving scientific instruments, and the need for accurate astronomical sightings and calculations provided the stimulus for technological and theoretical innovation that would allow mechanization and...

Science is a continuous, bi-directional process that relates empirical facts to theoretical formulations. The modern scientific method was first described by Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) shortly after the end of the Renaissance (1450–1600)...

. We begin with a distinction between what the medievals called “science” (scientia) and what, if anything, corresponds to our modern understanding of the term. Scientia, following Aristotle meant systematic knowledge, organized through...

This element of free creativity in material culture explains why people and groups adopt technical behaviours which seem to have absurd material results (even though they are correct and coherent in terms of the social logic of which they are a part)...

In part because anthropology describes itself as a science, and perhaps because it has in the past struggled to maintain its scientific credentials, science has itself remained largely outside the anthropological lens. Instead, a guiding presumption of...

in ancient India was advanced in some branches. The decimal numerical system reached Europe from India by Arabic mediation and, generally speaking, European mathematics overtook Indian achievements only with Leibniz. Astronomical notions concerning the...

1. Systematic study of the way in which the physical universe behaves. 2. Any body of knowledge organized in a systematic manner. 3. A method of research. See scientific...

Every form of nonsense is promoted under the name of science. (Spanish) Half of science is putting forth the right questions....

Science (from the Latin scientia, 'knowledge'), is the effort to understand, or to understand better, how nature works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding. It is done through observation of phenomena, and/or through...