http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Natural_HistoryNatural History - Revision history2026-09-15T20:17:00ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.0http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Natural_History&diff=74423&oldid=prevCure: Redirected page to Category:Natural History2012-11-13T11:47:28Z<p>Redirected page to <a href="/wiki/Category:Natural_History" title="Category:Natural History">Category:Natural History</a></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Natural history]] and [[natural philosophy]] together form the principle branches of [[natural science]]. They begin in [[CL 3|Iron age cultures]] as an attempt to better understand [[nature]] by way of a [[reflection]] that no longer interprets natural phenomena as the will of the [[deity|gods]]. [[Natural Philosopher|Natural philosophers]], or [[naturalist|naturalists]], seek to unshackle themselves from received opinion to the end of describing natural phenomena on the bases of careful observation. The authority of this observation is deemed, in the case of conflict, to trump that of [[religion]] and [[theology]].</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">#REDIRECT</ins>[[:Category:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Natural History</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The description of natural phenomena afforded by natural history is not experiment-based. Natural historians may well engage in [[dissection]] and [[vivisection]] to get a better look at the everyday operations of nature, but they have little inclination to impose highly artificial environments upon the natural phenomena which they study. To the eye of the natural historian, the rigorous control of variables achievable through [[experimentation]] casts a light that distorts more than it clarifies. In the search for knowledge, those willing to vex nature, like those willing to torture prisoners, deceive themselves by posing leading questions and accepting convenient answers. For their part, natural philosophers seek to do justice to nature as it presents itself to the attentive eye. And they seek to classify the variety of natural phenomena on the basis of their careful descriptions.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Natural history and natural philosophy are precursors of [[modern science]]. In particular, natural history is the precursor of [[biology]] and [[geology]], and natural philosophy is the precursor of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Natural historians, however, do not draw rigorous distinctions between [[life]] and its environment. For them the study of [[animals]], or of [[plants]], or of [[minerals]] is not a matter of specialization such that the price of dedicating oneself to one field is incompetence in the others. Research within the different branches of natural history remains united by common goals and a common language. Consequently, natural history remains eminently accessible to the amateur enthusiast. It is only in [[CL 9|Renaissance]] age cultures that the corpus of natural science begins to come apart by way of an emerging experimental-based science that yields results which are of great consequence within a given field and of little consequence outside it. This [[modern science]] is ruthless in its pursuit of ever greater specialisation within its respective fields. </del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], and [[zoology]].</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Miner|Profession (miner)]] skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming naturalists. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is especially likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. [[Elves]] are especially well-suited to the in-the-field work as naturalists given their +2 bonus on [[listen]] and [[spot]] checks. </del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]], and [[medicine</del>]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>[[zoology]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Miner|Profession (miner)]] skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Miner|Profession (miner)]] skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Profession (miner<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</del>)]] skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Miner|</ins>Profession (miner)]] skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Profession (miner)) skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Profession (miner))<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming naturalists. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is especially likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. [[Elves]] are especially well-suited to the in-the-field work as naturalists given their +2 bonus on [[listen]] and [[spot]] checks. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming naturalists. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is especially likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. [[Elves]] are especially well-suited to the in-the-field work as naturalists given their +2 bonus on [[listen]] and [[spot]] checks. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]]. The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Profession (miner)) skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming naturalists. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is especially likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. [[Elves]] are especially well-suited to the in-the-field work as naturalists given their +2 bonus on [[listen]] and [[spot]] checks. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming naturalists. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is especially likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. [[Elves]] are especially well-suited to the in-the-field work as naturalists given their +2 bonus on [[listen]] and [[spot]] checks. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Natural history and natural philosophy are precursors of [[modern science]]. In particular, natural history is the precursor of [[biology]] and [[geology]], and natural philosophy is the precursor of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Natural historians, however, do not draw rigorous distinctions between [[life]] and its environment. For them the study of [[animals]], or of [[plants]], or of [[minerals]] is not a matter of specialization such that the price of dedicating oneself to one field is incompetence in the others. Research within the different branches of natural history remains united by common goals and a common language. Consequently, natural history remains eminently accessible to the amateur enthusiast. It is only in [[CL 9|Renaissance]] age cultures that the corpus of natural science begins to come apart by way of an emerging experimental-based science that yields results which are of great consequence within a given field and of little consequence outside it. This [[modern science]] is ruthless in its pursuit of ever greater specialisation within its respective fields. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Natural history and natural philosophy are precursors of [[modern science]]. In particular, natural history is the precursor of [[biology]] and [[geology]], and natural philosophy is the precursor of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Natural historians, however, do not draw rigorous distinctions between [[life]] and its environment. For them the study of [[animals]], or of [[plants]], or of [[minerals]] is not a matter of specialization such that the price of dedicating oneself to one field is incompetence in the others. Research within the different branches of natural history remains united by common goals and a common language. Consequently, natural history remains eminently accessible to the amateur enthusiast. It is only in [[CL 9|Renaissance]] age cultures that the corpus of natural science begins to come apart by way of an emerging experimental-based science that yields results which are of great consequence within a given field and of little consequence outside it. This [[modern science]] is ruthless in its pursuit of ever greater specialisation within its respective fields. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]]. The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Profession (miner)) skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]]. The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins>]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Profession (miner)) skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The key skill for the pursuit of natural history is [[Knowledge (nature)]]. For field work in all but the tamest of environments, the [[Survival]] skill is desirable. This pair of skills also afford synergy bonus to one another. For field work in unfamiliar place, the [[Knowledge (geography)]] skill is desirable. For work underground, the [[Knowledge (dungeoneering]] skill is desirable. For work with animals, the [[Handle Animal]] skill is essential. For work with plants, the [[Profession (herbalist)]] skill is essential. For work with minerals, the [[Profession (miner)) skills is essential. The skills [[Hide]], [[Listen]], [[Move Silently]], [[Search]], and [[Spot]] may be highly desire as a function of the type of fieldwork undertaken. The [[Appraise]] skill may also be highly desirable</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming naturalists. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is especially likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming naturalists. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is especially likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Elves]] are especially well-suited to the in-the-field work as naturalists given their +2 bonus on [[listen]] and [[spot]] checks. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Natural history]] and [[natural philosophy]] together form the principle branches of [[natural science]]. They begin in [[CL 3|Iron age cultures]] as an attempt to better understand [[nature]] by way of a [[reflection]] that no longer interprets natural phenomena as the will of the [[deity|gods]]. [[Natural Philosopher|Natural philosophers]], or [[naturalist|naturalists]], seek to unshackle themselves from received opinion to the end of describing natural phenomena on the bases of careful observation. The authority of this observation is deemed, in the case of conflict, to trump that of [[religion]] and [[theology]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Natural history]] and [[natural philosophy]] together form the principle branches of [[natural science]]. They begin in [[CL 3|Iron age cultures]] as an attempt to better understand [[nature]] by way of a [[reflection]] that no longer interprets natural phenomena as the will of the [[deity|gods]]. [[Natural Philosopher|Natural philosophers]], or [[naturalist|naturalists]], seek to unshackle themselves from received opinion to the end of describing natural phenomena on the bases of careful observation. The authority of this observation is deemed, in the case of conflict, to trump that of [[religion]] and [[theology]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The description of natural phenomena afforded by natural history is not experiment-based. Natural historians may well engage in [[dissection]] and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even </del>[[vivisection]] to get a better look at the everyday operations of nature, but they have little inclination to impose highly artificial environments upon the natural phenomena which they study. To the eye of the natural historian, the rigorous control of variables achievable through [[experimentation]] casts a light that distorts more than it clarifies. In the search for knowledge, those willing to vex nature, like those willing to torture prisoners, deceive themselves by posing leading questions and accepting convenient answers. For their part, natural philosophers seek <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in their descriptions </del>to do justice to nature as it presents itself to the attentive eye. And they seek to classify the variety of natural phenomena on the basis of their careful descriptions.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The description of natural phenomena afforded by natural history is not experiment-based. Natural historians may well engage in [[dissection]] and [[vivisection]] to get a better look at the everyday operations of nature, but they have little inclination to impose highly artificial environments upon the natural phenomena which they study. To the eye of the natural historian, the rigorous control of variables achievable through [[experimentation]] casts a light that distorts more than it clarifies. In the search for knowledge, those willing to vex nature, like those willing to torture prisoners, deceive themselves by posing leading questions and accepting convenient answers. For their part, natural philosophers seek to do justice to nature as it presents itself to the attentive eye. And they seek to classify the variety of natural phenomena on the basis of their careful descriptions.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Natural history and natural philosophy are precursors of [[modern science]]. In particular, natural history is the precursor of [[biology]] and [[geology]], and natural philosophy is the precursor of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Natural historians, however, do not draw rigorous distinctions between [[life]] and its environment <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">however</del>. For them the study of [[animals]], or of [[plants]], or of [[minerals]] is not a matter of specialization such that the price of dedicating oneself to one field is incompetence in the others. Research within the different branches of natural history remains united by common goals and a common language. Consequently, natural history remains eminently accessible to the amateur enthusiast. It is only in [[CL 9|Renaissance]] age cultures that the corpus of natural science begins to come apart by way of an emerging experimental based science that yields results which are of great consequence within a given field and of little consequence outside it. This [[modern science]] is ruthless in its pursuit of ever greater specialisation within its respective fields. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Natural history and natural philosophy are precursors of [[modern science]]. In particular, natural history is the precursor of [[biology]] and [[geology]], and natural philosophy is the precursor of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Natural historians, however, do not draw rigorous distinctions between [[life]] and its environment. For them the study of [[animals]], or of [[plants]], or of [[minerals]] is not a matter of specialization such that the price of dedicating oneself to one field is incompetence in the others. Research within the different branches of natural history remains united by common goals and a common language. Consequently, natural history remains eminently accessible to the amateur enthusiast. It is only in [[CL 9|Renaissance]] age cultures that the corpus of natural science begins to come apart by way of an emerging experimental<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</ins>based science that yields results which are of great consequence within a given field and of little consequence outside it. This [[modern science]] is ruthless in its pursuit of ever greater specialisation within its respective fields. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The major </del>branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Major </ins>branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">naturalist</del>. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief practitioners of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they have the time and money for indulging in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to becoming <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">naturalists</ins>. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">especially </ins>likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The description of natural phenomena afforded by natural history is not experiment-based. Natural historians may well engage in [[dissection]] and even [[vivisection]] to get a better look at the everyday operations of nature, but they have little inclination to impose highly artificial environments upon the natural phenomena which they study. To the eye of the natural historian, the rigorous control of variables achievable through [[experimentation]] casts a light that distorts more than it clarifies. In the search for knowledge, those willing to vex nature, like those willing to torture prisoners, deceive themselves by posing leading questions and accepting convenient answers. For their part, natural philosophers seek in their descriptions to do justice to nature as it presents itself to the attentive eye. And they seek to classify the variety of natural phenomena on the basis of their careful descriptions.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The description of natural phenomena afforded by natural history is not experiment-based. Natural historians may well engage in [[dissection]] and even [[vivisection]] to get a better look at the everyday operations of nature, but they have little inclination to impose highly artificial environments upon the natural phenomena which they study. To the eye of the natural historian, the rigorous control of variables achievable through [[experimentation]] casts a light that distorts more than it clarifies. In the search for knowledge, those willing to vex nature, like those willing to torture prisoners, deceive themselves by posing leading questions and accepting convenient answers. For their part, natural philosophers seek in their descriptions to do justice to nature as it presents itself to the attentive eye. And they seek to classify the variety of natural phenomena on the basis of their careful descriptions.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Natural history and natural philosophy are precursors of [[modern science]]. In particular, natural history is the precursor of [[biology]] and [[geology]], and natural philosophy is the precursor of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Natural historians, however, do not draw rigorous distinctions between [[life]] and its environment however. For them the study of [[animals]], or of [[plants]], or of [[minerals]] is not a matter of specialization such that the price of dedicating oneself to one field is incompetence in the others. Research within the different branches of natural history remains united by common goals and a common language. Consequently, natural history remains eminently accessible to the amateur enthusiast. It is only in [[CL 9|Renaissance]] age cultures that the corpus of natural science begins <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to succumb </del>to come apart by way of an emerging experimental based science that yields results which are of great consequence within a given field and of little consequence outside it. This [[modern science]] is ruthless in its pursuit of ever greater <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">specilisation </del>within its respective fields. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Natural history and natural philosophy are precursors of [[modern science]]. In particular, natural history is the precursor of [[biology]] and [[geology]], and natural philosophy is the precursor of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]]. Natural historians, however, do not draw rigorous distinctions between [[life]] and its environment however. For them the study of [[animals]], or of [[plants]], or of [[minerals]] is not a matter of specialization such that the price of dedicating oneself to one field is incompetence in the others. Research within the different branches of natural history remains united by common goals and a common language. Consequently, natural history remains eminently accessible to the amateur enthusiast. It is only in [[CL 9|Renaissance]] age cultures that the corpus of natural science begins to come apart by way of an emerging experimental based science that yields results which are of great consequence within a given field and of little consequence outside it. This [[modern science]] is ruthless in its pursuit of ever greater <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">specialisation </ins>within its respective fields. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The major branches of natural history include [[astronomy]], [[meteorology]], [[geography]], [[geology]], [[mineralogy]], [[botany]], [[zoology]], and [[medicine]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pactitioners </del>of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they the time and money <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">required </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the indulgence </del>in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being </del>naturalist. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The chief <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">practitioners </ins>of natural history are members of the [[aristocrat]] [[class]]. Not only do they <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have </ins>the time and money for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">indulging </ins>in a pastime, they moreover have access to [[Knowledge (nature)]] as a [[class skill]]. Given the necessary resources, members of the [[expert]] class are even better suited to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">becoming </ins>naturalist. [[Adepts]], [[bards]], [[druids]], [[rangers]] and [[wizards]] have access to Knowledge (nature) as a class skill, but none is likely to embrace in its entirety the perspective of the natural historian with the possible exception of the ranger. </div></td></tr>
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