Humanities

The largest branch of scholarly discipline tracked on this atlas, covering the study of human culture, language, history, belief and meaning through interpretive and textual method rather than experiment or formal proof: history, philology, philosophy, theology, religious studies, art history, textual criticism, epigraphy and their regional and period specializations. Belongs here: any discipline whose primary method is close reading, archival work, translation or historical argument. Does not belong here: disciplines that test hypotheses against measurable data, grouped under Natural Science; disciplines that study human society through observation and statistics, grouped under Social Science; disciplines built on formal deductive systems, grouped under Formal Science.