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History of scientific ideas

Note 5 — Chapter II · The Methods of Natural History, as regulated by the Idea of Likeness.

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Decandolle and others use the term Glossology instead of Terminology, to avoid the blemish of a word compounded of two parts taken from different languages. The convenience of treating the termination ology (and a few other parts of compounds) as not restricted to Greek combinations, is so great, that I shall venture, in these cases, to disregard this philological scruple.

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