Leuke plekken in Amsterdam - van Hanneke Mertens. Amy Groskamp-Ten Have, Hoe hoort het eigenlijk? W. Bradford Paley: Map of science image in the journal Nature. Update: This has now been published in many more places: the original Nature article, Discover Magazine, SEED, Geo, the Eastern European Edition and India, Brazil, etc., and more books and papers. Since the image has proven to be popular (we still get print & publication requests, four lears later!) , I decided to rework the existing image layers, modifying only the graphical representation—no structure—to see whether I could improve the information layering and remedy some of the faults I outline at the bottom of this page.
Here's the new version: I was surprised at how much clearer it could be made. I think the new one has many of the structural faults I outlined below, but improves several things: Fewer distracting lines: nodes are now a single visual element rather than an outline and a central dot. They’re also more object-like, being filled areas rather than outlines. What follows is the original posting. This second poster shows which scientific areas produce the most patents. Branches of science (wikipedia) The scale of the universe mapped to the branches of science and the hierarchy of science The branches of science (also referred to as "sciences", "scientific fields", or "scientific disciplines") are commonly divided into three major groups: natural sciences, which study natural phenomena (including fundamental forces and biological life), formal sciences (such as mathematics and logic, which use an a priori, as opposed to factual, methodology) and social sciences, which study human behavior and societies.[1] The natural sciences and social sciences are empirical sciences, meaning that the knowledge must be based on observable phenomena and must be capable of being verified by other researchers working under the same conditions.
These three categories make up the fundamental sciences, which form the basis of interdisciplinary and applied sciences such as engineering and medicine. Natural science[edit] Physical science[edit] Physics[edit] Chemistry[edit] Earth science[edit] Ecology[edit] Chromoscope.