historians

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“If there are historians in the future, they’ll look back at Starship and say it was one of the most profound things that ever happened,” Musk said in a podcast interview last December.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

Instead of singers and dancers, passengers on these journeys will find scientists, historians and nature guides.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

What most people don’t realize about the “Amadeus” version of Mozart’s story is that historians posit it is almost entirely fictional.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

His glasswork, she said, is understood as preeminent by Tiffany historians, who don’t often come by artists who can authentically reproduce the luster of age-worn glass.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton