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[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

It was his math contributions people liked. Particularly his invention of calculus which could be used to solve a plethora of unsolved math problems. It's not because he said things fell.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

On the other hand, spontaneous generation was very much still a thing at this point, so a lot of the basic rules of the world around us were really not worked out yet

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

it was not discredited until the work of the French chemist Louis Pasteur and the Irish physicist John Tyndall in the mid-19th century.

There was a post on lemmy the other day about things that get their names from real people. I forgot that "pasteurize" was also one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

gerrymander is always a weird one, I dunno if flanderization counts but I'll just leave it here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Defini-diddilly does, Lemmarino!

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