A new word for a new profession
Laura Snyder begins with a scene from June 24, 1833. It's a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elderly man stands up to make a comment. It's Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He stands up and demands, "You must stop calling yourselves Natural Philosophers." He believed that true philosophers, like him, spent their time thinking about the Universe, not mucking around in pits and mud.
