minus-square@Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink17•1 year agoOn 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
minus-square@EmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink10•1 year ago 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
minus-square@nonfuinoncuro@lemm.eelinkfedilink4•1 year agogerrymander is always a weird one, I dunno if flanderization counts but I’ll just leave it here
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
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
gerrymander is always a weird one, I dunno if flanderization counts but I’ll just leave it here
Defini-diddilly does, Lemmarino!