Answers to the two questions posed near the front of the edition.
Question 1
Which Scottish writer's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences prompted William Whewell, in his 1834 review, to coin the use of the word ‘scientist’?
Reveal answer to question 1
Mary Somerville. Her book connected the physical sciences, and Whewell's review supplied the term. Oxford's Lady Margaret Hall Library and Cambridge's Whipple Library.
Answer added to the web edition · 2026-10-23
Question 2
Gagauzia—whose administrative center is Comrat—is an autonomous territorial unit of which country?
Reveal answer to question 2
Moldova. Gagauzia is an autonomous territorial unit whose administrative center is Comrat. Moldovan presidency and Invest Moldova.
Answer added to the web edition · 2026-10-23
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