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"Earth-like" (startrek.website)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't even have to go very far back to hit a time when scientists were called "natural philosophers".

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And "philosopher" is just Ancient Greek for "lover of wisdom".