Shortly before 1750, "science" became more common in the English language than "Science." What is the context for this shift?

by oldshending

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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=science%2C+Science&year_start=1500&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=7&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cscience%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CScience%3B%2Cc0

Searocksandtrees

There's always room for more contributions, but fyi, you'll find some previous responses on this topic in this post, which has links to a few more