Поиск в Google выдает, что слово modern (современный) впервые стало более распространенным, чем ancient, в 1894 г.

См. выше, гл. 2.

Эти три фразы встречаются в EEBO (см. примечание 80) три раза.

См. также другие книги, в названии которых есть слово modern: Bartholin, Walaeus & others. Bartholinus Anatomy: Made from the Precepts of His Father, and From the Observations of All Modern Anatomists (1662); Dary. The General Doctrine of Equation Reduced into Brief Precepts: In III Chapters. Derived from the Works of the Best Modern Analysts (1664); Salusbury (ed.). Mathematical Collections and Translations in Two Parts from the Original Copies of Galileus and Other Famous Modern Authors (1667); Croll, Hartmann & others. Bazilica Chymica & Praxis Chymiatricae; or, Royal and Practical Chymistry in Three Treatises. Wherein All Those Excellent Medicines and Chymical Preparations are Fully Discovered, from whence All Our Modern Chymists Have Drawn Their Choicest Remedies (1670); Barbette. The Chirurgical and Anatomical Works… Composed according to the Doctrine of the Circulation of the Blood and Other New Inventions of the Moderns (1672).