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The path of science has been long and winding since the Greeks , with their passage from myth to logos, banished magical explanations to inquire about nature in a rational way. After Thales, Pythagoras and Democritus, more than 26 centuries have passed plagued with discoveries, persecutions, heresies, revolutions and technologies; all this, the result of the work of men and women who have changed the world by trying to understand it, sometimes against established thinking. In ancient Greece , these thinkers were wise men who combined mathematics, astronomy, medicine and philosophy; today scientists are superspecialists in their areas of study, 
although there are those who assure that the future lies in multidisciplinary knowledge.
To comfortably walk through its history we have designed a large map of the science subway . Along the way, the lines advance, branch, cross … and pay attention to transshipments : great scientists who have excelled in various disciplines and have radically changed our conception of nature, such as Darwin, Newton and Einstein . Sometimes a new path emerges; in others it dies, when a hypothesis has been refuted by experimental evidence -it is the case of the existence of the ether-, or by lack of results -such as the search for the theory that unifies physical laws-. And, as with other emblematic suburban areas, the expansion works on this network are never finished . What will be the next season?
Infographic: José Antonio Peñas / Idea: Superinteressante, Brazil
