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William Denovan

William Denovan was a Scottish philosopher with an interest in theophysics and physics. One of the earliest occurrences of the term multiverse used in reference to the physical world is due to Denovan, in a letter to Scientific American in 1873.

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William Denovan was a Scottish philosopher with an interest in theophysics and physics. One of the earliest occurrences of the term multiverse used in reference to the physical world is due to Denovan, in a letter to Scientific American in 1873.¹

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1889. William Denovan, "A Swedenborgian View of the Problem of Philosophy", Mind, Vol. 14, No. 54 (April 1889), pp. 216–229.

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Denovan, William (1873). "The Physical Substratum of Mechanical Power in Nature". Scientific American. November (22): 324.