Is HISTORY a SCIENCE ?

            History is the analysis and interpretation of the human past that enables us to study continuity and change over time.. It is an act of both investigation and imagination that seeks to explain how people have changed over time. Historians use all forms of evidence to examine, interpret, revisit, and reinterpret the past. These include not just written documents, but also oral communication and objects such as buildings, artifacts, photographs, and paintings. Historians are trained in the methods of discovering and evaluating these sources, and the challenging task of making historical sense out of them. Nevertheless, historians do not always agree on interpretations of the past. The debated  differences help expand and enhance our understanding of human development.

 

History is foretold, Science is stated. On that last note, as we all know, for decades, we have been using the same formulas to calculate and prove theorems '' discovered '' by great scientists, i wouldn't know if science changed or there are different ways of looking at for example, newtons laws. He gave us the guide line and from that point on we have been wearing his formulas to death on our notebooks, because there is no other way we know to reach his conclusions if not to use his own. History on the other hand, can be interpreted in thousands of different ways depending on who is telling the story. 

 

 

 

I do believe that there is Science in History.

I do believe that there is History in Science.

But is History a Science? I don't believe so.