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Quotations from the Victorian age
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Scientists
Whewell suggested the name scientist in 1834, half jokingly. Even as late as the 1890s many men of science, including Huxley & Kelvin, refused to use the word
Helge Kragh: The Historiography of Science 1987
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