The term sciences once meant any organized branch of human knowledge.
Evidence
“Sciences” in the sense of branches of human knowledge, rather than in the more restricted meaning which the word has taken on since the industrial revolution. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1834
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘sciences’ historically meant branches of human knowledge generally, not just experimental disciplines post-industrial-revolution.
- XREF: connects to: The word science narrowed its meaning after the industrial revolution
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The word science narrowed its meaning after the industrial revolution