Kuybida V. Development of the natural sciences in XVII – early XXI century on the territory of Ukraine: sources, evolution of the folk and scientific terminology.

The thesis is devoted to the formation and development of the scientific and folk terminology in the coevolution with the natural sciences on the territory of Ukraine in XVII – early XXI century. The dissertation determines the main stages of the evolution of the natural sciences, the most important discoveries and scientists' names which performed the key role in the natural sciences and the formation of its terminology. The author analyzed the evolution of people’s ideas about nature in the historical development in the interrelation with the human thinking alterations. The research reveals the history of the formation of folk names for the main groups of animals and non-systemic terms for anatomy and morphology, physiology and sickness conditions of the human beings and animals, anatomical-physiological, psychological, behavioral characteristics of the children, ecological and physic-chemical notions. The paper investigates the rotation of the folk and scientific zoonyms in XX – early XXI century, it performs the comparative analysis of the formation of folk zoonyms together with toponyms and anthroponyms formation, it shows their role in outlining the stages of the formation process of industrial culture and ethnogenesis itself.