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Asked by anon-354696 on 8 Mar 2023.
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Bernice Ridley answered on 8 Mar 2023:
I have no idea, you could say that many early humans were scientists as they discovered how to make tools and use resources to better their own lives, those that first discovered how to harness the power of fire for instance.
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Ioannis Valasakis answered on 8 Mar 2023:
It depends on how you define a scientist. According to a formal definition:
“A scientist is a person who is engaged in the systematic and empirical study of the natural world, including the physical, biological, and social sciences. Scientists use scientific methods to create and test hypotheses, conduct experiments and observations, and analyze data to draw conclusions about the natural world.”A lot consider Thales of Miletus (624-546 BC), a Greek philosopher and mathematician as the first scientist. He used rational thinking and observation to explain phenomena such as earthquakes, eclipses, and the changing seasons. Thales is credited with making the first predictions of a solar eclipse and for proposing that all matter is made up of water. However, the term “scientist” was not coined until much later, in the 19th century, by William Whewell, an English philosopher and theologian.
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Emma Kelly answered on 8 Mar 2023:
When I think of the first scientists, I think of those who were the first to study human anatomy (because this is the area of science I love the most).
Herophilus was the first documented anatomist to complete human body dissections. He was a greek physician who lived a long time ago – he was born in 335BC.
But there are a lot of difference scientists and philosophers who came before Herophilus, so it is really hard to pin point the first scientist ever.
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Hannah Tanner answered on 9 Mar 2023:
The word “science” has been used in Middle English since the 14th century to mean something similar to knowledge and then in in 1834, William Whewell (a Cambridge University historian and philosopher of science) coined the term “scientist”. Before that, people who we’d now call scientists were called “natural philosophers”.
But people have been scientists or natural philosophers as long as people have been people – there’s always someone who’s curious about finding out how the world works. -
Silvia Mazzotta answered on 10 Mar 2023:
This is a very tricky question! I suppose it depends on what we mean by “scientist”. In my mind, cavemen were the first scientist as they figured out how to make fire!! And there wasn’t any google or Alexa they could ask!
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Aishwarya Mishra answered on 13 Mar 2023:
I think scientists can’t work in isolation and always have to work in teams to do things faster. So the first scientist I would say is cave people who worked together to inform us about everything what to eat, and what not to eat, invented fire, made the wheel, and make clothes from the skin.
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