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The compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary recognised that this wasa fairly recent development, with no example given before the 1860's:"We shall . . . use the word "science" in the sense which the Englishmenso commonly give it; as expressing physical and experimental science,to the exclusion of theological and metaphysical." (Snow, 1964 pg. xi)William Whewell, a philosopher and historian of science who used'science' in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences of 1840,is credited with establishing this term.The first time it was recorded as an idea, however, was at theAssociation for the Advanced Science in the early 1830's when it wasproposed as an analogy to the term 'artist.'