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science. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (5015 words) |
 | Science may be roughly divided into the physical sciences, the earth sciences, and the life sciences. |
| The physical sciences include physics, chemistry, and astronomy; the earth sciences (sometimes considered a part of the physical sciences) include geology, paleontology, oceanography, and meteorology; and the life sciences include all the branches of biology such as botany, zoology, genetics, and medicine. |
| Science, in the modern sense of the term, came into being in the 16th and 17th cent., with the merging of the craft tradition with scientific theory and the evolution of the scientific method. |
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