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165 years ago today, #JohnBellHatcher was born. Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of this quietly famous and influential fossil collector.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #SciComm
The apple story is clean, memorable, and almost entirely wrong. Newton did not have a sudden revelation in an orchard. What he had was a twenty-year argument with himself, a dispute with a colleague, and a deadline he almost missed. #Newton #Gravity #ScienceHistory #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory
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The apple story is clean, memorable, and almost entirely wrong. Newton did not have a sudden revelation in an orchard. What he had was a twenty-year argument with himself, a dispute with a colleague, and a deadline he almost missed.
#Newton #Gravity #ScienceHistory #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory #Bluesky
Three myths about Einstein that history quietly corrected. The failed student. The Nobel for relativity. The bomb. #Einstein #ScienceHistory #HistoryMyths #NobelPrize #ForgottenHistory #Trending
https://econopass.com/einstein-myths-corrected/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The apple story is clean, memorable, and almost entirely wrong. Newton did not have a sudden revelation in an orchard. What he had was a twenty-year argument with himself, a dispute with a colleague, and a deadline he almost missed. #Newton #Gravity #ScienceHistory #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory
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