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Is History a Science? Both the term history and science have many different connotations, so it is difficult to comment on whether they can be put into the same classification. Basically, the way in which history is studied would suggest that it is a science, mainly because the facts are all there, but a historian must find them and piece them together to complete the discovery. In science, the discovery of penicillin was made partly by mistake. Experiments in a laboratory on one subject stumbled across different results, which could be attributed to the discovery of penicillin. This is a very similar situation to where a historian may be involved in an archaeological investigation of the ruins of a roman villa. The search could yield new findings, which could change all previous perceptions of the Romans, for example finding evidence that the Romans had electricity. History is studied to gain...

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