Comment on Anti-acknowlegements

EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He really didn’t coin the term for her specifically, as nice as that sounds.

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  • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, at least in connection with her:

    Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville’s book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That sounds like it was for her specifically in the first use

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Wikipedia on “scientist”

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