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[I]t is incorrect, anachronistic and ahistorical to call anybody a scientist who lived and worked before 1834 when the term was first coined by William Whewell. It fact it is dodgy using it for people before about 1870 when the term [scientist] first really came into common usage.
Thony Christie (@rmathematicus), citing Rebekah “Becky” Higgitt

(Source: thonyc.wordpress.com)

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