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From: clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/31
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system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu wrote:

>clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) writes:
>
>>Evidently not true.  Calculus was invented in the 17th century by Newton.
>>Another poster has stated that the OED dates "technology" to 1614, so it
>>appears that the word "technology" predates calculus.
>
>the 17th century is the 1600s.
>
>However Newton was born in 1642.

Right.  Last time I checked, 1614 preceded 1642.  And I believe Newton
did invent Calculus before he reached 58 years of age. So the word
"technology" predates  the invention of calculus.