J. Brookes Spencer
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Associate Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Editor of The Collected Works of Niels Bohr.
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Physical science, the systematic study of the inorganic world, as distinct from the study of the organic world, which is the province of biological science. Physical science is ordinarily thought of as consisting of four broad areas: astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the Earth sciences. Each of…
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