William Denovan
Scottish philosopher
About 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.
Selected publications 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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