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*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 1567]

*Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 1567]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1 : a treatise on some aspect of [[nature]]

*1 : a treatise on some aspect of [[nature]]

*3 : the [[study]] of [[natural]] objects especially in the field from an amateur or popular point of view

*3 : the [[study]] of [[natural]] objects especially in the field from an amateur or popular point of view

==Description==

==Description==

'''Natural history''' is the [[scientific]] [[research]] of [[plants]] or [[animals]], leaning more towards the [[observational]] than [[experimental]] [[methods]] of [[study]], and [[encompasses]] more [[research]] that is published in magazines than in [[academic]] [[journals]]. Grouped among the [[natural sciences]], Natural history is the systematic [[study]] of any category of [[natural]] objects or [[organisms]]. That is a very broad designation in a world filled with many narrowly [[focused]] [[disciplines]], so while modern natural history dates historically from [[studies]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world ancient Greco-Roman world] and then the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Agricultural_Revolution medieval Arabic world] through to the scattered European [[Renaissance]]  scientists working in near [[isolation]], today's field is more of a cross [[discipline]] umbrella of many specialty [[sciences]] that like geobiology have a strong multi-disciplinary [[nature]] combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_history]

'''Natural history''' is the [[scientific]] [[research]] of [[plants]] or [[animals]], leaning more towards the [[observational]] than [[experimental]] [[methods]] of [[study]], and [[encompasses]] more [[research]] that is published in magazines than in [[academic]] [[journals]]. Grouped among the [[natural sciences]], Natural history is the systematic [[study]] of any category of [[natural]] objects or [[organisms]]. That is a very broad designation in a world filled with many narrowly [[focused]] [[disciplines]], so while modern natural history dates historically from [[studies]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_world ancient Greco-Roman world] and then the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Agricultural_Revolution medieval Arabic world] through to the scattered European [[Renaissance]]  scientists working in near [[isolation]], today's field is more of a cross [[discipline]] umbrella of many specialty [[sciences]] that like geobiology have a strong multi-disciplinary [[nature]] combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_history]

[[Category: The Sciences]]

[[Category: The Sciences]]