Home  10 Pillars  Map  Tree Rationale Forum About  Terms Contact     Search top academic & professional resources
10 pillars of knowledge: map of human knowledge
 Agriculture
Loading
foundations of Knowledge - Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie, Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2010, CC –BY- SA 2.0.©
 Supernatural - God creates man (Michelangelo, Ceiling of Sistine Chapel)© Matter and Energy - Sun (NASA).© Space and Earth - Solar System Montage (NASA, 2000).© Gorilla Non-Human Organisms - Gorilla (Credit: E. De Merode, NASA ).© Human Body and Mind. Courtesy of US Army image gallery.© Human Society - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948 (United Nations, 1949).© Human Thought and Art – The Vitruvian Man (Leonardo da Vinci, 1492).© Technology - Space Shuttle Columbia as it lifts off from Launch Pad 39A on mission STS-107 (NASA, 2003).© Human History - The French Revolution (July revolution. July 28, 1830), "Liberty Leading the People", (Eugene Delacroix, 1830).©
Foundations Supernatural Matter & Energy Space & Earth N/h Organisms Body & Mind Society Thought & Art Technology History
Living World
Knowledge Supernatural Universe Humans
Agriculture explores the cultivation of the earth (C. Zins, 2011).
Agriculture
 2. Earth sciences. Fields: agriculture. Image: The Harvesters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.©  
Agriculture
1. Theory
     Philosophy of agriculture
2. Agricultural Fields
      Horticulture
     Forestry
     Animal husbandry
     Aquaculture
     Fishery... . .
 Post your proposed structure! 		 

   
The relations between humans and the earth can best be described in terms of use, abuse and control.  Humans use the earth, abuse it, or try to control its devastating powers, and face their devastating effects  (C. Zins, 2011).
     
Rationale
Subfields. Agriculture’s main sub-fields are horticulture (study of plant cultivation), forestry (study of managing forests and tree plantations), animal husbandry (study of breeding and raising livestock), aquaculture (study of farming of freshwater organisms), and fishery (study of raising and harvesting fishes).

Modern agriculture is an interdisciplinary field. It embodies the use of natural resources (soil and water) for improving biologically
based products (e.g., meat, fruits, vegetables) by human involvement and technologies (e.g., genetic engineering, pesticides, agricultural machinery). Therefore, agriculture can be represented by three pillars: space and earth (pillar 4), nonhuman organisms (pillar 5), and technology (pillar 9) (C. Zins, 2011).  
Reflections
Post your comments on the conception and structure of the field!
中 文   English   Français   Deutsch   עברית  日 本語   नेपाली     Polski    Português    Română     русский    Српски    Español   More.... 
10PK Poster & Book
a must for your library
February 2013  © Copyright Dr. Chaim Zins, Jerusalem, 2002-2013. All rights reserved. 
Chaim Zins, Knowledge Mapping Research, 26 Hahaganah St. Jerusalem, 97852 tel: 972-2-5816705 chaim.zins@gmail.com