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This dimension groups scientific theories by the era in which they were first proposed. Wikipedia notes that "as additional scientific evidence is gathered, a scientific theory may be modified and ultimately rejected if it cannot be made to fit the new findings," a process of revision that has unfolded differently in every era of science. Browsing by proposed era lets a visitor compare theories that arose in the same period.

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1. Wikipedia: Biology
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The term biology in its modern sense appears to have been introduced independently by Thomas Beddoes (in 1799), Karl Friedrich Burdach (in 1800), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (Biologie oder Philosophie der lebenden Natur, 1802) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Hydrogeologie, 1802).
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