What scientist is relatively recent?
William
Who first coined the word scientist?
William Whewell
When?
19th century.
What did people call themselves before scientists?
natural philosophers
What did they investigate?
nature
How long have empirical investigations of the natural world been described?
unknown
Who was one of the people who described these investigations?
Roger Bacon
What did Thales describe?
natural world
Recently?
16th- and 17th-century
Have the scientific methods only been used since 2001?
unknown
What has been employed since the Middle Ages?
scientific methods
Is science defined broadly?
no
What have historians of science defined science sufficiently?
Traditionally