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protoscientific
protoscientific adj.
Brit. 
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)sʌɪənˈtɪfɪk/
, /ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)sʌɪənˈtɪfɪk/U.S. /ˌproʊdoʊˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk/
of or relating to primitive science, or an early stage in the development of modern science./ˌproʊdoʊˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [adjective] > early
prescientific1854
protoscientific1922
1922 Sci. Monthly Jan. 58 We can deny to the savage neither the usefulness not the contemporary objectivity of the proto-scientific explanations which he offered.
1960 K. Rexroth in Portfolio & Artnews Ann. No. 3. 109 It is from Taoist researches and speculations of this time that alchemy and related protoscientific practices grew.
2000 Stud. Hist. & Philos. Sci. 31 641 It looks as though the enthusiasm of modern historians to find proto-ecological attitudes in St Francis has meant that they have mistaken a thoroughly religious position about creatures for a proto-scientific one about Nature.
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