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Revision as of 16:27, May 11, 2007
The history of science goes back into the dim and musty reaches of antiquity, when philosophers first began to speculate about what causes things to move and grow. At first, it was hardly distinguishable from mythology or superstition.
By a process of regular observation and classification, ancient Greek philosophers tried to make sense of the natural world.