Anthropology

==Etymology==
The abstract noun ''[[wikt:anthropology|anthropology]]'' is first attested in reference to [[history]].<ref name="oed2" />{{refn|group=n|[[Richard Harvey (astrologer)|Richard Harvey]]'s 1593 ''Philadelphus'', a defense of the legend of [[Brutus of Britain|Brutus]] in [[History of Britain|British history]], includes the passage "Genealogy or issue which they had, Artes which they studied, Actes which they did. This part of History is named Anthropology."}} Its present use first appeared in [[German Renaissance|Renaissance]] [[Holy Roman Empire|Germany]] in the works of [[Magnus Hundt]] and [[Otto Casmann]].<ref name="Medicine">{{cite book|author=Israel Institute of the History of Medicine|title=Koroth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lev_H1Ie0zcC&pg=PA19|publisher=Brill|page=19|id=GGKEY:34XGYHLZ7XY|year=1952|access-date=5 November 2015|archive-date=10 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610201217/https://books.google.com/books?id=lev_H1Ie0zcC&pg=PA19|url-status=live}}</ref> Their [[Neo-Latin]] ''{{lang|la|anthropologia}}'' derived from the [[combining form]]s of the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] words ''ánthrōpos'' ({{lang|grc|{{linktext|ἄνθρωπος}}}}, "[[human]]") and ''lógos'' ({{lang|grc|{{linktext|λόγος}}}}, "[[science|study]]").<ref name="oed2">''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1st ed. "anthropology, ''n''." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1885.</ref> Its adjectival form appeared in the works of [[Aristotle]].<ref name="oed2" /> It began to be used in English, possibly via [[French language|French]] ''{{lang|fr|Anthropologie}}'', by the early 18th century.<ref name="oed2" />{{refn|group=n|[[John Kersey]]'s 1706 edition of ''[[The New World of English Words]]'' includes the definition "''Anthropology'', a Discourse or Description of Man, or of a Man's Body."}}