Timeline of scientific discoveries (3210 bytes)
1: ... shows the date of publication of major [[Science|scientific]] theories. In many cases, the discovery spanned...
3: ...timelines]] of Science and Technology, [[Obsolete scientific theories]].
6: * [[350s BC]] - [[Hereclides]]: [[rotation of Earth]]:
13: * 16?? - [[Robert Boyle]]: [[Boyle's law]] of [[ideal gas]]
14: ...epler]]: [[Kepler's laws of planetary motion|Laws of planetary motion]]

Timeline of scientific experiments (4698 bytes)
1: ... shows the date of publication of major [[science|scientific]] [[experiment]]s.
3: ... of timelines]] of science and technology, [[list of famous experiments]].
7: ...lling balls to disprove the [[Aristotelian theory of motion]]
8: ...es [[Galilean moons|moons of Jupiter]] in support of the [[heliocentric model]]
10: * [[1676]] - [[Ole Rømer]] measures the [[speed of light]] for the first time.

Discoveries (874 bytes)
1: ...ries''''', published in [[2002]], is a collection of letters written by [[Canada|Canadian]] [[novelist...
3: ...erton Trilogy|Salterton Trilogy]], the early days of [[Massey College]], and the [[The Deptford Trilog...
5: ''Discoveries'' is the second collection of Davies' letters; ''[[For Your Eye Alone]]'' was p...
7: [[Category:Books by Robertson Davies|Discoveries]]
8: [[Category:2002 books|Discoveries]]

List of famous discoveries (500 bytes)
1: ...only it is usually a substance, rather than a way of doing something. So the wheel was an invention, f...
24: *[[List of famous experiments]]
25: *[[Obsolete scientific theories]].

Portugal in the period of discoveries (7859 bytes)
3: '''Portugal in the period of discoveries''' (1415-1499)
5: ...g struggle to expel the Moors, with the influence of foreign Crusaders and the military orders, had gi...
7: ...iefly valuable to the Portuguese as a recognition of the prestige they had acquired. That prestige was...
9: ...t,” as he was called, assured the supremacy of the Crown. He was succeeded in 1495 by Emanuel (M...
12: *[[The Establishment of the Monarchy in Portugal]] ([[1095]]-[[1279]])

Discoveries of the chemical elements (22210 bytes)
1: {{merge}} [[Timeline of chemical element discovery]]
5: The story of the '''discoveries of the [[chemical element]]s''' is presented here in...
79: <td>First described scientifically by Tholden</td>
86: ...lentinus]], definitively identified by [[Claude Geoffroy Junine]] in 1753</td>
108: ...an gold ore since the [[16th century]]. A number of chemists worked on platinum in the [[18th century...

List of famous archaeological discoveries (1214 bytes)
1: '''[[List]] of famous archaeological discoveries'''
3: ... their meaning reassessed in the context of later discoveries, or even be discredited at a later date (e.g., [[...
5: ...eological site]]; others are equally relevant out of [[context]].
21: *[[Red Lady of Paviland]]
25: *[[Standard of Ur]] - [[Ur]]

Scientific Management (5075 bytes)
1: ...r]] in his 1911 [[monograph]] ''The Principles of Scientific Management''. ([http://www.eldritchpress.org/fwt/...
3: ...ovements. This sort of task-oriented optimization of work tasks is nearly ubiquitous today in menial i...
5: ...se it had been developed to allow workers to goof off. From this he posited that there was one best me...
7: ...ered to take a break of 10 minutes for every hour of marching. This allows for a much longer forced ma...
9: ...tain people for particular jobs. His presentation of this seems quite discriminatory today:

Scientific consensus (7292 bytes)
1: ...t of the body of scientists in a particular field of science.
3: ...ng]] are sometimes used to ascertain the existing scientific consensus.
7: ...issent and have the possibility of becomming part of the consensus. Thus, consensibility is a pre-requ...
9: ==Lack of substantial doubt==
11: ...of [[experimentation]] and [[peer review]] (see [[scientific method]]).

Scientific method (30368 bytes)
1: ...f building a supportable, evidenced understanding of our world.
2: ...ntific method is indivisible from the development of science itself.
4: ...n it there is also evidence of a ''long tradition of empirical practice and observation.''
6: ...y)|induction]]. Bacon described a repeating cycle of ''observation'', ''hypothesis'', ''experimentatio...
8: ...matical analysis, which permitted the enunciation of general [[physical law]]s. [[Isaac Newton]] syste...

Scientific hypothesis (503 bytes)
1: ...sted by the prediction validation process for a [[scientific theory]].
3: ...he process of accepting theories is part of the [[scientific method]].

Scientific Alliance (1410 bytes)
1: ...iance''' is a [[British]] non-profit organization of industry-friendly experts that promote [[biotechn...
3: ...ssociation]], and political consultant Mark Adams of the [[public relations]] firm, ''Foreseight Commu...
5: ...m revealing its funders, critics like [[Bob May]] of the [[Royal Society]] have allegedly linked the g...
9: ...cientific-alliance.org/the_debate_climate.htm The Scientific Alliance]
10: * [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scientific_Alliance SourceWatch], Center for Media & Democra...

Scientific racism (3025 bytes)
1: ...rks are motivated more by political opinions than scientific observations.
3: ...e science can be exceptionally blurry at the time of initial controversy.
5: ... this term, as are the theoretical justifications of the 20th century [[racial hygiene]] movement whic...
7: ...ves are politically motivated or an overextension of [[political correctness]].
9: Some regard the entire concept of race as having little use in modern science; see ...

Scientific visualization (4958 bytes)
1: ...mages to scientists who interpret huge quantities of [[laboratory]] or simulation data or the results ...
3: ...re also many [[proprietary software]] packages of scientific visualization tools.
7: ...shows computer drawn and animated reconstructions of road or airplane accidents.
9: Some of the most popular examples of scientific visualizations are computer generated images whic...
11: ==Scientific Visualization in Engineering==

Scientific literature (4356 bytes)
1: ...ature'''. [[Academic publishing]] is the process of placing one's research work into the literature.
3: ...cientific literature includes the following kinds of publication:
4: *almost all articles published in [[scientific journal]]s
6: ... is books wholly written by one or a small number of authors
7: ...take some responsibility for ensuring consistency of style and content

Scientific romance (1180 bytes)
1: '''Scientific romance''' is an archaic name for what is now kno...
3: ...[[Jules Verne]]'s novel ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]''.
11: * ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]'' by [[Jules Verne]]
13: * ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]]
14: * ''[[The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]]

Scientific skepticism (17144 bytes)
1: ... accept the veracity of claims unless they can be scientifically verified.
3: ... [[philosophical skepticism]] which is the school of thought in which one critically examines whether ...
5: ...e remainder of this article refers exclusively to scientific skepticism.
9: ...c worldview, but [[Martin Gardner]] is an example of a committed skeptic <!-- debunker is POV iirc, so...
11: The following is a definition of scientific skepticism from ''Skeptic'' magazine:

Scientific determinism (2055 bytes)
1: ...l Popper]] and [[Stephen Hawking]] have called '''scientific determinism'''.
3: ...terminism'' argues that in its strongest version, scientific determinism makes a very strong assertion, that "...
5: ...ientific determinism. For example, a weaker type of determinism is one that only implies a unique, me...
7: ...y principle]] does not absolutely rule-out a kind of determinism "in principle", and says that quantum...
9: ...ility." (conclusions section of ''A Brief History Of Time'')

Scientific paper (1449 bytes)
1: ... many [[scientist]]s offer a '[[pre-print]]' copy of their paper for free download from their personal...
3: ...equently the [[publisher]] will insist on a delay of two to five years before making electronic downlo...
6: ...scientific journals]], [[citation index]], [[List_of_journal_search_engines|online papers search engin...

Scientific citation (4181 bytes)
1: ...indset]] of [[research]], and especially as "part of what science" it is, and to help determine who co...
3: ...ingly, some [[reliance]] on authoritative prior [[scientific consensus]] is the norm, either with citation or ...
5: ...less able to stand on their own without some body of prior knowledge.
7: ...n order to retain the [[integrity]] of this means of [[judgment]]. A formal [[citation index]] tracks ...
9: ...f [[Saints]] or [[Apostles]] and citing incidents of their lives as moral examples.

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