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jan 1, 1646 - "Electricity" coined

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"electric" and "electricity" make their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646

Source: Chalmers, Gordon (1937), "The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England", Philosophy of Science, 4 (1): 75–95, doi:10.1086/286445

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