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comment by CrazyEyeJoe
CrazyEyeJoe  ·  2763 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why there weren’t any scientists before the late nineteenth century.

Why not just say that the nature of science has changed over the ages?

It seems like an overreach to say that you can't call fucking Newton a scientist because his job description was different from what we would associate with the term today.