[Ads-l] Antedating of "Physicist"

[Mark Mandel]

193x or 183x? Which century?

On Thu, May 28, 2020, 8:21 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great work, Fred. Apparently, the article you found appeared in "The
> London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science" in
> September *1937*. The accompanying note states that the article had been
> reprinted from the "Bibliotheque Universelle" in June *1937*. Was it
> translated? I do not know. Also, the article had been delivered in
> Geneva on December 15, *1836*.
>
> "physicists" occurs five times in the volume. Some of these instances
> are in different articles.
> https://books.google.com/books?id=YTlZAAAAcAAJ&q=+physicists#v=snippet&
>
> "physicist" occurs once in the volume
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=YTlZAAAAcAAJ&q=%22and+physicist%22#v=snippet&
>
> Date: September *1837*
> Periodical: The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and
> Journal of Science
> Volume 11
>
> Article: XXXII. Papers on the alleged Periodical Meteors of the 13th
> of November, and on Shooting Stars in general. By M. M. WARTMANN and
> QUETELET
>
> I. Notice respecting the Periodic Meteors of the 13th of November. By
> M. L. F. WARTMANN
>
> From the Bibliotheque Universelle N. S. 2 de Ann. No. 18, June *1837*:
> having been read before the Society of Physics and Natural History of
> Geneva, Dec. 15, 1836.
>
> Start Page 261, Quote Page 262
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> 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.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:18 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > > physicist (OED, 2., 1840)
> > >
> > > *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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