The great physicist Ernest Rutherford is reputed to have said: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." But was he right? In this video, David aims to answer this question, as well as explain science's closest analogue to stamp collecting: natural history. This is the story of how the simple act of collecting drove the scientific revolution, and how the different branches of science came to be. Is physics really so different from, say, biology? And what's the difference between biology and natural history?
Fun fact: most of the naturalists discussed in this video were medical doctors. No reason for me pointing this out...
00:00 Introduction: is all science either physics or stamp collecting?
01:32 The joy of collecting
02:45 The origins of natural history
03:05 Natural history in antiquity
03:30 Natural history in the renaissance
03:42 Wunderkammer
04:30 Parson naturalists
04:45 The invention of museums
05:12 Founding of the Natural History Museum
06:00 The scientific revolution
06:21 Natural history in modern times
07:05 Stamp collecting in science
07:18 Scientific models
07:45 Examples of stamp collecting in chemistry and physics
08:18 Summary
08:38 Outro
FURTHER READING:
[ Ссылка ] SEP: SCIENTIFIC MODELS
[ Ссылка ] SEP: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
[ Ссылка ] IS BIOLOGY MORE THAN STAMP COLLECTING?
[ Ссылка ] WHAT IS NATURAL HISTORY?
[ Ссылка ] WHICH SCIENCE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT?
