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The word science does not date back to antiquity. It has been coined relatively recently though its concepts, theories, and rules have been classically part of philosophy. In 1660, when the Royal Society, the world’s first academy of scientific discipline, was founded in London, the subject to which it addressed itself was referred to as natural philosophy.
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Chorafas, D.N. (2015). Science. In: Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09189-1_1
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