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I went looking to see who the entry was for the nearest town to where I live expecting it to be Mary Somerville and was rather disappointed to find it was some
by arethuza 4y ago
I went looking to see who the entry was for the nearest town to where I live expecting it to be Mary Somerville and was rather disappointed to find it was some chap I'd never heard of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville
Worth noting:
"In 1834 she became the first person to be described in print as a 'scientist'"
- jefftk 4y agoThat's what the term was coined for; the older term was "man of science"