M&D Deep Duck Read. On science.

[Dave Monroe]

scientist (n.) 1834, a hybrid coined from Latin scientia (see science)
by the Rev. William Whewell (1794-1866), English polymath, by analogy
with artist, in the same paragraph in which he coined physicist
(q.v.).

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=scientist

science (n.) mid-14c., "what is known, knowledge (of something)
acquired by study; information;" also "assurance of knowledge,
certitude, certainty," from Old French science "knowledge, learning,
application; corpus of human knowledge" (12c.), from Latin scientia
"knowledge, a knowing; expertness," from sciens (genitive scientis)
"intelligent, skilled," present participle of scire "to know,"
probably originally "to separate one thing from another, to
distinguish," related to scindere "to cut, divide," from PIE root
*skei- "to cut, to split" (cognates: Greek skhizein "to split, rend,
cleave," Gothic skaidan, Old English sceadan "to divide, separate;"
see shed (v.)).

>From late 14c. in English as "book-learning," also "a particular
branch of knowledge or of learning;" also "skillfulness, cleverness;
craftiness." From c.1400 as "experiential knowledge;" also "a skill,
handicraft; a trade." From late 14c. as "collective human knowledge"
(especially "that gained by systematic observation, experiment, and
reasoning). Modern (restricted) sense of "body of regular or
methodical observations or propositions concerning a particular
subject or speculation" is attested from 1725; in 17c.-18c. this
concept commonly was called philosophy. Sense of "non-arts studies" is
attested from 1670s.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=science

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ongoing baseline concept--hat tip to a longtime Plister--Mason & Dixon
> are 'scientists' within their time, right? Or at least technologists?
> What was status of such?
>
> The pages from this book show how mathematics was taught to many young
> Englishmen so they could navigate at sea but how surveying became
> steadily popular to measure estates. Mathematics and astronomy
> skillls. Accuracy, that necessary condition of science. The not-magic.
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=urKT4s0qP88C&pg=PA162&dq=surveying+%2B+18th+Century&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zrKWVJHGE-6LsQSKtYCIAg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=surveying%20%2B%2018th%20Century&f=false
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