sThe first transition owing to the natural philosophic inquiries during the Greek Hellenic and Hellenistic period -- The second transition owing to the creation of modern classical science -- The culminating achievement of Newton -- The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries advances including inquiries in magnetism and electricity -- The origins of chemistry and modern atomism -- Transition to the third reality in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Construction of the atom in the twentieth century -- The impending fourth transition along with the future prospects of science.
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