M&D Deep Duck Read. On science.

[Dave Monroe]

technologist (n.) "one versed in technology," 1803, from technology + -ist.

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

technology (n.) 1610s, "a discourse or treatise on an art or the
arts," from Greek tekhnologia "systematic treatment of an art, craft,
or technique," originally referring to grammar, from tekhno- (see
techno-) + -logy. The meaning "study of mechanical and industrial
arts" (Century Dictionary, 1902, gives examples of "spinning,
metal-working, or brewing") is first recorded 1859. High technology
attested from 1964; short form high-tech is from 1972.

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

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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