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The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal.
The year 1950 in science and technology included some significant events. Astronomy and space sciences. Dutch astronomer Jan Oort postulates the existence of an orbiting cloud of planets (the Oort cloud) at the outermost edge of the Solar System. [1] Enrico Fermi discusses the Fermi paradox. [2] Biology.
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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of initially 1000 scientists and later with over 1500 entries. Organized chronologically, beginning with Imhotep (entry "[1]") and concluding with Stephen Hawking (entry "[1510]"), each biographical entry is numbered ...
- Isaac Asimov
- 1964
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle ...
Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1860; no relation to Chambers's Cyclopaedia of the 18th century) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870) Dictionary of Political Economy (1894–1899), by Inglis Palgrave. Pears Cyclopaedia (1897), originally named Pears' Shilling Cyclopaedia. The People's Select Cyclopedia (1897), by Charles Nisbett.
17th century. 18th century. 1800–1849. 1850–1899. 1900–1949. 1950–1999. 21st century. References. External links. Timeline of scientific discoveries. The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific breakthroughs, theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer.
The history of the scientific discovery of climate change began in the early 19th century when ice ages and other natural changes in paleoclimate were first suspected and the natural greenhouse effect was first identified. In the late 19th century, scientists first argued that human emissions of greenhouse gases could change Earth's energy ...
