Edwin Newman

Isaac Newton (16421727) achieved momentous breakthroughs in three areas: mathematics (the...

Ancient and medieval awareness of electrical effects included lightning, electric fish, S...

Traditional scientific determinism has suggested that the natural world is regular and pr...

After Rome fell in the 5th century A.D., Europe endured a long drought of ideas. The Midd...

Charles Darwin (18091882) published in 1859 a vastly important work: On The Origin of Spe...

In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity, followed by the Gene...

For most of history, the beginning of the universe has been understood through the many m...

After 3500 B.C., when cuneiform writing was developed and recorded history began, science...

The first known navigators were the Phoenicians, who 3000 years ago sailed the Mediterran...

Astronomy is perhaps the oldest science. The ancients saw cosmic meanings in the stars, a...

Modern chemistry emerged from the historical traditions of metalworking (beginning as ear...

The concept of the atomthe smallest physical building block of naturehas been around at l...

Science is a way of knowing thats characterized by the rules of logic and the methods of ...

Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection and...

Among the greatest natural historians was Alexander von Humboldt (17691859), who influenc...