Etymology of "biology"

The word science is framed by joining the Greek βίος (bios), signifying "life", and the postfix '- logy', signifying "investigation of", "information of", "investigation of", in view of the Greek verb λέγειν, "legein" "to choose", "to accumulate" (cf. the thing λόγος, "logos" "word"). The term science in its advanced sense seems to have been presented freely by Thomas Beddoes (in 1799),[1] Karl Friedrich Burdach (in 1800), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (Biologie oder Philosophie der lebenden Natur, 1802) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Hydrogéologie, 1802).[2][3] The word itself shows up in the title of Volume 3 of Michael Christoph Hanow's Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae dogmaticae: Geologia, biologia, phytologia generalis et dendrologia, distributed in 1766.

Before science, there were a few terms utilized for the investigation of creatures and plants. Regular history alluded to the distinct parts of science, however it additionally included mineralogy and other non-organic fields; from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, the binding together system of normal history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being. Common rationality and characteristic religious philosophy enveloped the theoretical and otherworldly premise of plant and creature life, managing issues of why life forms exist and carry on the way they do, however these subjects likewise included what is currently geography, material science, science, and cosmology. Physiology and (herbal) pharmacology were the territory of pharmaceutical. Organic science, zoology, and (on account of fossils) geography supplanted common history and characteristic reasoning in the eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years before science was generally adopted.[4][5] right up 'til the present time, "herbal science" and "zoology" are broadly utilized, in spite of the fact that they have been joined by other sub-controls of science, for example, mycology and atomic science.