[Ads-l] Coincidental Antedatings of "Cybernetics"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Norbert Wiener famously coined the term "cybernetics" in 1948.

Google Books retrieves two coincidental occurrences of "cybernetics," with different meanings and etymologies, in the nineteenth century:

1854 Joseph Devey _Logic: Or, the Science of Inference_ 385

1890 John Munro _Pioneers of Electricity_ 175

Fred Shapiro


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