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Definition of Sciences
1. science [n] - See also: science
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sciences
Literary usage of Sciences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A College Text-book of Physics by Arthur Lalanne Kimball (1917)
"Physics and Chemistry are the fundar mental physical sciences and form the ...
There are, however, many points where these sciences merge into each other, ..."
2. Outlines of Chemistry: A Textbook for College Students by Louis Kahlenberg (1909)
"For the sake of classifying our knowledge, we are wont to distinguish between
the biological sciences, which deal 'with living things, and the so-called ..."
3. An Introduction to General Biology by William Thompson Sedgwick, Edmund Beecher Wilson (1895)
"the Biological sciences and the Physical sciences, dealing respectively with living
... The biological sciences (p. 7) are known collectively as Biology ..."
4. Elementary Economics: With Special Reference to Social and Business by Charles Manfred Thompson (1919)
"THE SOCIAL sciences Nature and content of the social sciences. — The subjects of
study that deal with the various phases of human activity, as expressed in ..."
5. Medical and Physical Researches: Or, Original Memoirs in Medicine, Surgery by Richard Harlan (1835)
"ON THE AFFILIATION OF THE NATURAL sciences. " Between the physical sciences and
the arts of lifi there subsists a constant inn. tual interchange of good ..."
6. English Psychology by Théodule Ribot (1874)
"Why the sciences become independent—4. That Philosophy will become Metaphysics;
Poetry and Metaphysics—5. Psychology as an independent science—6. ..."
7. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"Mineralogy comprises the two distinct, though closely allied sciences, Mineralogy
proper, and Geology. The former considers minerals as independent bodies ..."
8. An Introduction to Social Psychology by William McDougall (1916)
"SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION AMONG students of the social sciences
there has always been a certain number who have recognised the fact that some ..."
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