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18th-century neologisms

  • PseudoscienceIn 1843, French physiologist François Magendie labeled phrenology a pseudo-science of the present day. This early label marked the beginning of a long…
  • JapanophiliaCarl Peter Thunberg stood in a Japanese garden during the late 1700s and cataloged plants that had never been seen by European eyes.