![]() Science is increasingly seen as part of a global history of exchange, conflict and collaboration. Science is a human activity, and scientific contributions have been made by people from a wide range of different backgrounds and cultures. The history of science is often seen as a linear story of progress but historians have shown that the story is more complex. The nature of the history of science (and by implication, the definition of science itself) is a topic of debate. ![]() Moreover, industrial and military concerns as well as the increasing complexity of new research endeavors ushered in the era of " big science," particularly after the Second World War. And in the 20th century, new discoveries in genetics and physics laid the foundations for new sub disciplines such as molecular biology and particle physics. ![]() In the 19th century, new perspectives regarding the conservation of energy, age of Earth, and evolution came into focus. The chemical revolution of the 18th century, for instance, introduced new quantitative methods and measurements for chemistry. More "revolutions" in subsequent centuries soon followed. The New Science that emerged was more mechanistic in its worldview, more integrated with mathematics, and more reliable and open as its knowledge was based on a newly defined scientific method. Natural philosophy was transformed during the Scientific Revolution in 16th- to 17th-century Europe, as new ideas and discoveries departed from previous Greek conceptions and traditions. The recovery and assimilation of Greek works and Islamic inquiries into Western Europe from the 10th to 13th century revived the learning of natural philosophy in the West. Aided by translations of Greek texts, the Hellenistic worldview was preserved and absorbed into the Arabic-speaking Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Latin-speaking Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but continued to thrive in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire. These civilizations' contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine influenced later Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, wherein formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia around 3000 to 1200 BCE. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present.
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