Natural sciences science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.
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11 Facts About Natural sciences
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Earth science, is an all-embracing term for the Natural sciences related to the planet Earth, including geology, geography, geophysics, geochemistry, climatology, glaciology, hydrology, meteorology, and oceanography.
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Earth Natural sciences today are closely linked to petroleum and mineral resources, climate research and to environmental assessment and remediation.
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Natural sciences investigated chick embryos by breaking open eggs and observing them at various stages of development.
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Natural sciences presented philosophies about physics, nature, and astronomy using inductive reasoning in his works Physics and Meteorology.
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Natural sciences philosophy appeared in a wide range of forms, from treatises to encyclopedias to commentaries on Aristotle.
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Natural sciences philosophers came to view nature increasingly as a mechanism that could be taken apart and understood, much like a complex clock.
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Natural sciences philosophers including Isaac Newton, Evangelista Torricelli and Francesco Redi conducted experiments focusing on the flow of water, measuring atmospheric pressure using a barometer and disproving spontaneous generation.
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The natural sciences continued to be called natural philosophy, but the adoption of the scientific method took science beyond the realm of philosophical conjecture and introduced a more structured way of examining nature.
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Natural sciences constructed a table of 33 elements and invented modern chemical nomenclature.
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Today, natural sciences are more commonly divided into life sciences, such as botany and zoology; and physical sciences, which include physics, chemistry, astronomy, and Earth sciences.
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