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    During Queen Victoria's reign in the 19th century, referred to as the Victorian era, science progressed rapidly in Britain and elsewhere. It was the first time that science was considered a profession, with major discoveries made in physics, astronomy, natural history and medicine. Scientists began promoting empirical research through observation and experimentation rather than relying on religious doctrine. Isaac Newton's ideas revolutionized views of both science and God, establishing that natural laws governed the universe. One of the most important medical discoveries was identifying microorganisms as the cause of diseases like cholera and developing antiseptics, vastly improving hospital hygiene. The Victorian era saw significant advances in both the natural and social sciences.

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    During Queen Victoria's reign in the 19th century, referred to as the Victorian era, science progressed rapidly in Britain and elsewhere. It was the first time that science was considered a profession, with major discoveries made in physics, astronomy, natural history and medicine. Scientists began promoting empirical research through observation and experimentation rather than relying on religious doctrine. Isaac Newton's ideas revolutionized views of both science and God, establishing that natural laws governed the universe. One of the most important medical discoveries was identifying microorganisms as the cause of diseases like cholera and developing antiseptics, vastly improving hospital hygiene. The Victorian era saw significant advances in both the natural and social sciences.

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    During Queen Victoria's reign in the 19th century, referred to as the Victorian era, science progressed rapidly in Britain and elsewhere. It was the first time that science was considered a profession, with major discoveries made in physics, astronomy, natural history and medicine. Scientists began promoting empirical research through observation and experimentation rather than relying on religious doctrine. Isaac Newton's ideas revolutionized views of both science and God, establishing that natural laws governed the universe. One of the most important medical discoveries was identifying microorganisms as the cause of diseases like cholera and developing antiseptics, vastly improving hospital hygiene. The Victorian era saw significant advances in both the natural and social sciences.

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    Victoria & Science

    Queen Victorian 's reign was a period of intensive industrialization, which had
    built a firm foundation for the next century growth and expansion. This period, referred to
    as the Victorian era, was a time of rapid scientific progress both in Britain and
    elsewhere. For the first time, science was seen as a profession in its own right; the very
    term "scientist" was a Victorian invention, originally proposed by William Whewell in
    1840. Major discoveries were made during Victorian times in all branches of science,
    including physics, astronomy, natural history and medicine.With this advance and
    industrial technologies Britain was able to attack a huge and rapidly expanding
    international market.
    The scientists of this century started to promote a free science of church
    intervention and supported by empirical knowledge,
    through observation and
    experimentation. Through these resources a true scientific revolution occurs. Scientists
    and thinkers argued that the truth could be achieved through experimentation and the
    use of reason. This new scientific paradigm did not deny the existence of God, but
    explaining the world through natural laws and verifiable.
    The vision of the universe was strengthened from the discoveries of Isaac
    Newton. This new figure of the universe not only influenced mathematics or physical
    sciences, but extended to the image of nature and society. Indeed, the society also
    began to be thought as a collection of individuals; including the attraction and repulsion
    operate. Newton's ideas revolutionized the very idea of God. So everything around men
    work under laws, and science was defined as the study and understanding.
    The Geographic expansion, which included conquest and colonization had a
    profound impact on knowledge. Not only because it involved a series of advances in the
    media that facilitated it, but that achievement into question many of the ideas accepted
    until then.
    One of the most far-reaching scientific discoveries of Victorian times is that
    certain diseases are caused by microorganisms invading the body. A major breakthrough
    was made in the 1850s by a physician named John Snow, who carefully tracked a
    cholera outbreak in London to a contaminated water supply. A few years later the germ
    theory of disease, as it became known, was put on a firmer footing by the French
    chemist Louis Pasteur. Based on Pasteur's ideas, the British surgeon Joseph Lister
    pioneered the use of antiseptics, leading to a vast improvement in hospital hygiene.
    While astronomers explored the solar system and the universe, medical
    scientists explored the world of germs and microbes, the human body was open for
    exploration, and soon scientific methods were being applied to the human spirit as well.
    What science offered by the late nineteenth century was the exploration of the natural

    world in all its aspects, the collection and interpretation of newly discovered facts; and
    exploration and discovery were central to the Victorian concept of knowledge, turning
    explorers like Burton and Speke into national heroes. The Victorian era was a period of
    soaring industrialism and innovative commercial enterprise, of great advances within the
    natural sciences and the development of the social sciences. It was a time of both
    prosperity and social inequality.

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