• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    13 hours ago

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

    • Echolynx@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours 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