Big History

See: Renaissance, History, Big Bang, Present Day, Time Frame, Multidisciplinary Approach, NPR, Empirical Evidence, Causality, David Christian (Historian), The Guardian, University of Oxford.

References

(Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_History Retrieved:2017-5-14.
- Big History is an emerging academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. It examines long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach based on combining numerous disciplines from science and the humanities, and explores human existence in the context of this bigger picture. It integrates studies of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity using empirical evidence to explore cause-and-effect relations, and is taught at universities and secondary schools often using web-based interactive presentations. According to historian David Christian, who has been credited with coining the term "Big History", the intellectual movement is made of an "unusual coalition of scholars". Some historians have expressed skepticism towards "scientific history" and argue that the claims of Big History are unoriginal. Others support the scientific merit but point out that Cosmology ^[1] and Natural History ^[2] have been studied since the Renaissance, and that the new term, Big History, continues such work.