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Dark, clowdy and impertinent’ – Thomas Browne’s scientific language

by Claire Preston
Dark, clowdy and impertinent’ – Thomas Browne’s scientific language
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Succulent, cretaceous, technology, parasitical, electricity . . . Scientific investigation in the seventeenth century generated new ideas, and scientists needed new words to express them. Experimentalists, observers, collectors, and technicians all c....

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