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Re: PSEUDO-SCIENCE ? (rambling but not long)

Earth Science (as specified by the New York State Regents exams and taught
many years ago by me) includes astronomy and meteorology as well as
geology... it was not a simple change of name.

Br. Robert W. Harris
Catholic Memorial High School
rwharris@cath-mem.org
http://www.cath-mem.org/physics/contents.htm




-----Original Message-----
From: Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Date: Sunday, February 27, 2000 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: PSEUDO-SCIENCE ? (rambling but not long)


Leigh Palmer wrote:

.... The academic fad of appending the term "science" to a
topic to make it somehow more acceptable is quite old. ....

Does anybody know the history of the name "Earth Science",
as opposed to a very respectable name "Geology"?
Ludwik Kowalski