Supposedly so called "from its multitude of dogs of a huge size" (Pliny), but perhaps this is folk-etymology, and the name might instead be that of the Canarii, a Berber people who lived near the coast of Morocco opposite the island and might have settled on it. The name was extended to the whole island group (Canariæ Insulæ) by the time of Arnobius (c.300). As a type of wine (from the Canary Islands) from 1580s.
In September 1896, Popular Science Monthly carried an article by scientist David Starr Jordan entitled “The Sympsychograph: A Lesson in Impressionist Physics.” Jordan was one of the most respected scientists in the United States at the time and the president of Stanford University. The article concerned a curious image, ...