This article provides a broad survey of the development of science as a way of studying and understanding the world, from the primitive stage of noting important regularities in nature to the …

The subject of this science is broad because almost everything can have a name and because the study of names theoretically encompasses all languages, all geographical and cultural regions, and all …

Oct 17, 2025 · The structural details of bacteria and blue-green algae, which are similar to each other in many respects but markedly different from both higher plants and animals, have been studied in an …

Sep 29, 2025 · Science, in its mature form, developed only in the West. But it is instructive to survey the protoscience that appeared in other areas, especially in light of the fact that until quite recently this …

Nov 14, 2025 · Astronomy, science that encompasses the study of all extraterrestrial objects and phenomena. Since the late 19th century, astronomy has expanded to include astrophysics, the …

Perhaps the most famous fictional example is in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time (1962), in which L’Engle takes artistic license with the science of the tesseract, using it as a means of traveling …

Tanya Kelley is an adjunct professor of German and Spanish at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and History of Science.

Nov 25, 2025 · In short, by the time of Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th century, a fairly broad substratum of physical science existed, largely empirical but not without theoretical implications on …

6 days ago · Etymology The word love is derived from the hypothetical term leubh, a root in Proto-Indo-European (the reconstructed parent of Indo-European languages) meaning care or desire.

Nov 12, 2025 · Tanya Kelley is an adjunct professor of German and Spanish at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and History of Science.