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Science

Science is not a collection of facts about the world. That is called knowledge.

Rather, science is a process - a way of thinking and making sense of the world, which can then lead to new knowledge.

Science(from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3500 to 3000 BCE.Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greeknatural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to explain events of the physical world based on natural causes.After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age.The recovery and assimilation of Greek works and Islamic inquiries into Western Europe from the 10th to 13th century revived natural philosophy, which was later transformed by the Scientific Revolution that began in the 16th centuryas new ideas and discoveries departed from previous Greek conceptions and traditions.The scientific method soon played a greater role in knowledge creation and it was not until the 19th century that many of the institutional and professional features of science began to take shape.

The branches of science, also referred to as sciences, "scientific fields", or "scientific disciplines," are commonly divided into three major groups:

References​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branches_of_science

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