The tech tree of science
Why has science developed in the order it has? Why is astronomy widely the first to be significantly developed, along with medicine and maths. Why has quantum physics, something distant and confusing, preceded the maturation of the social sciences? The relevance of the duhem quine thesis for having calibratable instruments/replicability in science. Consider the fidelity and specifiability of the instruments used, surveys vs telescopes, plus the subject matters’ unchangingness. Tech trees of science is the question.