On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, by Mary Somerville, is one of the best-selling science books of the 19th century. The book went through many...
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highly successful science writer of the nineteenth century. Her On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834), intended for the mass audience, sold...
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written that spread the new science to both experts and the educated public, but Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (first edition...
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Mary Somerville (category Members of the American Philosophical Society)
uses of the word scientist was in a review by William Whewell of Somerville's second book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences. However, the word...
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Scientist (category Science occupations)
Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly Review. Whewell wrote of "an increasing proclivity of separation and...
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of science". In 1834, William Whewell introduced the term scientist in a review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences,...
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Letters to a German Princess (category Collections of letters)
reference to Uranus and four minor planets respectively. On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences Fellmann 2007, pp. 73–74 Klyve, Dominic (Autumn 2010)...
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an 1834 review of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Sciences. But the word did not enter general use until nearly the end of the same century.[citation...
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Books. The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2020. Holmes, Richard (22 October 2014). "In retrospect: On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences". Nature...
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(1840), On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, J. Murray Publishers, (originally by Harvard University) Hogan, C. Michael (1973). "Analysis of highway...
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