The Enchantment wanted to unify the sciences such as physics, biology, chemistry, etc. to create common natural laws. ... According to Descartes, reductionism is "the study of the world as an assemblage of physical parts that can be broken apart and analyzed separately- (31). ... The different branches of learning such as the social sciences, chemistry and biology are all possible pathways we can choose to get from one room to the next (73). ...