[Ads-l] Antedating of "Physicist"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Who was the author?

On Thu, May 28, 2020, 7:31 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> This is a noteworthy antedating, as the term antedated is one of the major
> scientific neologisms of the 19th century and has been regarded as one of
> the key contributions of the master neologist William Whewell:
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> physicist (OED, 2., 1840)
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> 1838 _Madras Journal of Literature and Science_ 1 Jan. 168 (19th Century
> U.K. Periodicals)  The much-wished-for fall of one of these meteors would
> without doubt furnish the chemist and physicist with the means of
> explaining certain points quite unknown.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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