• Question: who made science

    Asked by Jessica T to Gavin, Karen, Mark, Michel, Roisin on 12 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Karen

      Karen answered on 12 Nov 2016:

      Hi Jessica, science has always existed as long as man has been curious about the world around him. Right back to cavemen who recognised the medicinal properties of herbs. The English word “scientist” is a relatively new word, introduced in 1834 by a Cambridge philosopher William Whewell who defined it as “someone who studies the physical and natural world through observation and experiment” ?

    • Photo: Mark Kennedy

      Mark Kennedy answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      As Karen said, science has always existed. But how humans have researched science has changed over the centuries.

      The father of modern science (the man who pretty much came up with the scientific method) and also the father of modern astronomy is Galileo Galilei. But he didn’t invent science. He just came up with a way for us to study science in a new way.

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