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>When did physics stop getting called natural philosophy and start getting
>called physics?
>
>Thanks,
>Larry
I took an impromptu poll of text book titles containing "Natural Philosophy"
for each even year of publication in a library catalog between 1850 and
1818 inclusive.
Here they are: (1850)
3,1,3,3,2,1,1,2,1,0,1,3,0,1,1,1,8,3,3,1,1,0,2,1,0,2,0,1,0,1,2,0,0,0,0 (1918)
I did not fit them to a regression - by eye there is no great fall off
before WWI, at least not at the Bodleian (Oxen) pre 1920 catalog. Then
again, I didn't count the titles containing the competitive word "physics"
either, as a control.