The word biology is written for the first time in 1766, Hanover in a text entitled "Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae dogmaticae: geology, biology, phytologia dendrologiam generalis vel et terrae, et rerum viventium vegetantium in genere atque arborum scientiam "published in Halle (Germany). Thirty-six years later, in 1802 and almost simultaneously, the word appears again in two relevant texts that are "Hydrogeology" Lamarck, published in Paris and in the book of Treviranus entitled "Biologie oder Philosophie der Natur für Naturforscher und Lebende Aertze" published in Göttingen. If we are talking about a scientific discipline, it seems unreasonable to say that if there is no word that designates it is because there is no such discipline. If no word biology, no science of biology, but it's not enough word. The word must be used to designate a body of knowledge and methods that define a way to understand life, to interpret. And here we find the source of the difficulty up ads. When does biology?. It depends, see.
biology, like any field of knowledge, is the fruit of an era. But in particular, in biology, linguistics, is the result of complex knowledge, expertise and wrapped in the language that characterized the twentieth century. Before the twentieth century, biology as it is conceived today did not exist. From there, every biologist should be aware that scientific activity is not going to increase the level of knowledge of a hypothetical recipient of knowledge, but in others more complex. As he said in a conference Ángel Gabilondo, philosopher and rector of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, scientists are not as the dwarves of Snow White who stroll through the forest singing: aibo!, aibo!, tralari!, tralara!, along collecting twigs that go together in bundles of firewood. Philosophy teaches us the secrets of nature are not sticks of firewood or knowledge is measured in bundles. On the contrary, the scientist is part of nature and history and its activity is well embedded in them and affects them. Builds the world's science and biology is a good recent example. Therefore, a biologist should know, above all, how have occurred scientific revolutions and, therefore, we have included commentary on the book by Thomas Kuhn in a preferably along with other books that are not biology, but both data and knowledge fundamental to the biologist who does not want to act out of ignorance or to any person who wishes to know the reality of a scientific discipline in its historical context.
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