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- What is the first recorded use of the word scientia?
Etymology dictionaries mention the word science coming from the latin word scientia from the XII century, but they don't reference any written piece where it was recorded What's the first recorded
- Which disciplines were considered science before the scientific . . .
scientia is the Latin word meaning knowledge For Aristotle there is episteme: knowledge of the causes, starting from first principles
- What was the major influence of Francis Bacon on the development of . . .
Francis Bacon did not himself do science, his chief contribution is to what is now called the methodology of science But De Maistre only comments on one side of Novum Organum Scientiarum, its "method" of discovery by " inductio per enumerationem simplicem ubi non reperitur instant contradictoria " [induction by simple enumeration, excluding contradictory instances] That is indeed not the
- terminology - Is it known who coined the term Episteme? - History of . . .
Aristotle was probably the turning point, especially considering his influence on scholastics, who translated episteme as scientia, which then underwent metamorphosis of its own into science of today:"It is in Aristotle that we find the basis for something like the modern opposition between epistêmê as pure theory and technê as practice
- How did artillery and physics co-evolve during 1400-1700?
Artillery was established in Europe around the year 1400 But physics, the mathematical and systematical description of how objects fall, the foundation of engine construction, didn't dawn until ab
- Origin of the term field (in vector field) - mathematics
This is a gravitational field Again, considering water flowing in a pipe, you can assign a speed and direction to each tiny bit of water, as Leonhard Euler did in his work on hydrodynamics (Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita, 1736) The mathematical formulation of a vector field is a way of giving formal structure to these notions
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What is the first recorded use of the word "scientia"? Etymology dictionaries mention the word science coming from the latin word scientia from the XII century, but they don't reference any written piece where it was recorded
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What is the first recorded use of the word "scientia"? Etymology dictionaries mention the word science coming from the latin word scientia from the XII century, but they don't reference any written piece where it was recorded
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