Like the German terms Geschichte (History) and Forschung (Research), the singular noun Wissenschaft (science), denoting a comprehensive entity, first appeared in the late 18th century; it was followed by Naturwissenschaft (Natural science) and (with similarly narrowed meaning) the English noun science [10. 10, 30]. Until well into the 17th century, the distinction between Latin scientia (knowledge about a subject area, acquaintance) and ars (art, competence, abi…