[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Mad Scientist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

mad scientist (OED 1893, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction 1883)

1871 Daily Patriot (Washington, DC) 21 Aug. 2/3 (Newspapers.com)

We find twenty mad scientists airing their crotchets of differential expansion, strength in weakness, and the like.  This is not testimony of experts at all, but vagary of eccentrics.

Fred Shapiro

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