Science in the singular did not exist before the eighteenth century.

Evidence

So every knowledge was organized into a discipline. These knowledges that had been disciplinarized from within were then arranged, made to communicate with one another, redistributed, and organized into a hierarchy within a sort of overall field or overall discipline that was known specifically as science. Science in the singular did not exist before the eighteenth century. Sciences existed, knowledges existed, and philosophy, if you like, existed. Philosophy was, precisely, the organizational system, the system that allowed knowledges to communicate with one another—and to that extent it could play an effective, real, and operational role within the development of technical knowledges. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 198

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the Islamophobia field’s genealogy of how modern ‘expert’ knowledge disciplines and ranks its objects. — connects to: The word science narrowed its meaning after the industrial revolution; Eighteenth-century technical knowledge was a scattered patchwork of rival secret knowledges — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 195; Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2032 (+1 more)

Related

• The word science narrowed its meaning after the industrial revolution (similarity 0.91)
• Eighteenth-century technical knowledge was a scattered patchwork of rival secret knowledges (similarity 0.84)
• Eighteenth-century technological advance was a multiplicity-struggle, not enlightenment progress (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins #expands (0.82) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2032