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1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion vi. xv. f. cccj^v Also this robert was a connyng man of scyence, & wold in high festes of sayntes in somme abbay of his kyngdom, syng owther bere a coope and rule the quere.

a1500 Ratis Raving (Cambr. Kk.1.5) l. 1782 in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 50 For-thi trow to the visest men Of sciens that couth tech and ken.

1552 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ii. 119 Here after is declared the names of all suche officers, men of Scyence, Artyficers, Craftismen, and other mynistres.

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 16 Sen the saidis lordis and gentilmen being men of science [etc.].

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura v. 104 The Original Drawings of the great Masters, being dispersed amongst the hands of the greatest Princes, and men of Science only, are preserved with jealousie.

1746 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 40 J. Bapt. Porta, who is well known to all the Men of Science of all Nations, built his System of Physiognomy upon that of Aristotle.

1759 S. Johnson 2nd Let. to Gazetteer 8 Dec. in Wks. (1787) X. 295 No man of science will deny, that architecture has..degenerated at Rome to the lowest state.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III iv, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 242/2 It was his fancy to invite Men of science, wit, and learning, Who came to lend each other light.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud iv. vii, in Maud & Other Poems 18 The man of science himself is fonder of glory, and vain, An eye well-practised in nature, a spirit bounded and poor.

1890 R. Le Gallienne G. Meredith 71 The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

1927 Observer 20 Mar. 24/3 Modern florists and men of science..have made a rainbow out of a single colour (as in the nemesia).

2009 Independent 31 Dec. (Life section) 15/5 Part of the DNA running through this adaptation was all those horror films in which a cocky young man of science has his certainties upturned.

1591 J. M. Phillippes Venus f. 2 To burne one Candle, in seeking another: to exercise our tungs, fill our eares, but deceiue our expectations: to talke of warre, were too vnseemelye for women of Science, not fitting our sexe.

1757 W. Huggins Annot. Orlando Furioso 73/2 This charming nurse is a woman of Science, skilled in the laconic as well as the pathetic, and an excellent oratrix.

1817 Revealer of Secrets II. viii. 129 It was easy to become a woman of science; she had only to talk of gas, and oxygen and decomposition.

1883 P. A. Hanaford Daughters of Amer. 263 Mary M. Chase (though she would hardly have numbered herself among the women of science) was a lover of botany.

1909 Science 26 Nov. 757/1 Women of genius would be given an equal opportunity with men of genius, and the absurd distinctions of salary inherited from the public schools would no longer be a drag upon the scientific work of the university. The woman of science, like the man, would be worthy her hire.

1975 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 47/2 Rachel Carson, a woman of science who heard the message more clearly than her male colleagues, launched the environmental revolution in the United States with her publication of Silent Spring.

2013 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 June d1 Santarossa is a veterinarian, so she is a woman of science first and foremost.

1915 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) 25 Apr. 19/8 His reach and unerring left that had so sorely troubled earlier opponents were valueless. Kay completely blinded him with science.

1919 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) 19 Jan. 4/7 Joe..being a clever tapper, with a dandy left, was fairly blinding him with science.

1931 Sydney Morning Herald 1 June 11/3 Nine out of every ten such taxpayers must say that it is a mass of complexity, and cannot be understood. To put the position in a boxing phrase, ‘He is blinded with science’.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 18 Blind with science, to explain away an offence, a mistake, by talking at great length and very technically, thus dazzling one's interlocutor into non-pursuance of the matter. (Mostly Army.)

1973 Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 14/6 We are also more familiar..with the tendency for people to be blinded by science and to succumb to ‘expert’ medical opinion, however quackish.

1980 Jrnl. Amer. Stud. 14 258 A mistaken attempt to appeal to the common reader on the one hand, and to blind him with science on the other.

2006 S. Pape & S. Featherstone Feature Writing x. 126 Although the reader should never be blinded by science, the focus will often be on the importance of medical breakthroughs in terms of improving quality of life.