We discover the world though our actions . What we find is the direct product of our actions. From the earliest eras humans participate in nature. Their lives are intimately involved in what is around them.
The lives of animals and humans are close together through gathering, herding dairying, tending wild planting and the first nomadic and settled cultures. With the early civilizations the qualities of animals are taken into human affairs as free energies. Humans come to have more possibilities for action. The materials of the world are available through commerce.
In the early civilizations of Oceania, pacific indochina, Atlantic americas, Africa and Mediterranean Eurasia human activity comes to be a participation in the wider world. In ancient Mesopotamia astronomical events become the scope of human attainments. This continues through the mediaeval period into the renaissance. Human beings discover that their endeavours are with the ambience of planets, sun stars and that their commerce brings precious plant medicines and useful metals.
The enlightenment provided discoveries of motions through the universe for humans to continue their wide ranging commerce on earth with comprehension of what is around them. Industrialisation gathered the materials of the world to useful effect and through social cooperation brought peace and prosperity to many lives. Energy electronic atomic discoveries in the 20th century enable the natural sciences to proceed as a fundamental exploration of nature. Human life comes to involve energies of the universe on a daily basis with use of quantal, electronic and atomic device processes with comprehension of the universe we sense.