7 Jul 2014

Science PCMB Textbook.PDF for PUC-I

Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge"[1]) is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledgein the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.[2][3] In an older and closely related meaning, "science" also refers to a body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. A practitioner of science is known as a scientist.
Since classical antiquity, science as a type of knowledge has been closely linked to philosophy. In the early modern period the words "science" and "philosophy of nature" were sometimes used interchangeably.[4] By the 17th century,natural philosophy (which is today called "natural science") was considered a separate branch of philosophy

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