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To: PatrickHenry; Doctor Stochastic; betty boop; ToryHeartland

My reference, with specific citation, makes it ckear that the word science was used in its modern sense in 1725. That could imply the word was in common use by then.


1,030 posted on 04/24/2006 7:04:38 AM PDT by js1138 (somewhere, some time ago, something happened, but whatever it was that happened wasn't evolution)
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My reference, with specific citation, makes it ckear that the word science was used in its modern sense in 1725.

That's approximate date I had in mind, js1138. 1725 is considered to be in "modern times."

1,060 posted on 04/24/2006 10:13:33 AM PDT by betty boop (The world of Appearance is Reality’s cloak -- "Nature loves to hide.")
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