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around us works. Technology includes the technological design process and the body of knowledge related to the study of tools and the effect of technology on society. Science is continuously growing with technology today. Thanks to technology scientists have been able to better prove their theories.
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The study of science and technology includes both processes, and bodies of knowledge. Scientific processes are the ways scientists investigate and communicate about the natural world. The scientific body of knowledge includes concepts, principles, facts, laws, and theories about the way the world
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can denote science since this period (in distinction to early-modern), all science since Newton (in distinction to pre-modern), or simply science as practiced now.
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of the modern sciences. Science (still in the form of natural philosophy) from roughly the late 16th century until the early- to mid-19th century was
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in the 17th and 18th centuries is often considered a central event in the history of science. The 19th century saw the
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from antiquity to the 16th century was primarily derived from the work of
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as well as those that were abandoned (thus overlapping with the
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is concerned with the paths that led to our present
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Portal:History of science

Persian
astrolabe
science
knowledge
history of ideas
history of philosophy
intellectual history
philosophy of science
sociology of science
science, technology, and society
history of technology
Periodization
historiography of science
Scientific Revolution
Isaac Newton
natural philosophy
Copernicus
European and Islamic science
Aristotle
Greek philosophers
Chinese knowledge
alchemy
astrology
other subjects
precursors
experimental method
professionalization
secularization

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