Science as a Social Endeavor

This story illustrates science as a social endeavor by showing that Jean-Andre De Luc wanted his work to be understood by regular people unfamiliar with geology. Another example is James Hutton, who was trained as a doctor and familiar with the new ways of thinking about the natural world, also accepted the Newtonian explanations of gravity, light, and heat. Science can be a social endeavor because scientists use the ideas of other scientists (along with their own) to further progress their scientific knowledge.