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For the astronomer and the physicist both may prove the same conclusion: that the earth, for instance, is round: the astronomer by means of mathematics (i.e. abstracting from matter), but the physicist by means of matter
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were in a common register, whether studied in the diverse parts of the Islamic world, in India, in Christian Europe, in China, or apparently in Mesoamerica.
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has proposed that a fundamental change leading to the new sciences was the unification of the exact sciences and physics by
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The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of D. T. Whiteside
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The distinction between the quantitative exact sciences and those sciences that deal with the causes of things is due to
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and considered the exact sciences to be the "more natural of the branches of mathematics."
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Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development
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Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science
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A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century
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A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century
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A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century
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A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century
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This article is about a branch of science. For the company of the same name, see
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Pyenson, Lewis (1993), "Cultural Imperialism and Exact Sciences Revisited",
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Language, thought and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf.
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Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science: Volume 1
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employed this distinction when he said that astronomy explains the
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have also been considered exact sciences, most notably by
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Sciences that admit of absolute precision in their results
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by mathematical reasoning while physics explains it by
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Drake, Stillman; Swerdlow, N.M.; Levere, T.H. (1999).
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Benjamin Whorf, Linguistics as an exact science. In
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The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
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Index

Quantitative science
Exact Sciences (company)

Ulugh Beg
meridian arc
mathematical sciences
optics
astronomy
physics
Descartes
Leibniz
Kant
logical positivists
objective knowledge
quantitative
rigorous
hypotheses
predictions
measurements
Aristotle
natural philosophy
Thomas Aquinas
spherical shape of the Earth
material causes
scientific revolution
Edward Grant
Kepler
Newton
Linguistics
comparative philology

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