Dwight Goldwinde

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The Enlightenment and the industrial revolution naturally introduced yet more new words–reservoir, condenser, sodium (1807), Centigrade (1812), biology (1819), kleptomania (1830), palaeontology (1838), gynaecology and bacterium (both 1847), claustrophobia (1879).
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
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