![]() ![]() Though, they didn’t just want to kill him for frivolous gem disposal. We imagine the news that this guy - a nobleman and an aristocrat - could set fire to diamonds, in the name of making a point, didn’t earn him many fans when the French Revolution broke out. In the 18th century, however? Diamonds really were rare. We can make diamonds now, ones identical to ones you dig out, and even in the 19th century, vast diamond deposits meant the gems needn’t have been considered rare at all. “How could he just burn diamonds? Aren’t those things rare and valuable?” The answer is yes, but also no, but also yes. “The madman!” say some people on hearing this. ![]() Jacques-Louis David Shooting lasers at diamonds also opened a portal to the Otherworld. But Lavoisier managed it, by focusing a beam of light narrowly enough. For him, this explained why men have beards.īurning diamonds isn’t easy. Consider, for example, Hippocrates, who thought semen was created in the brain and stored in hair. We’ve known that the menstrual cycle has something to do with pregnancy, and we’ve known that semen has something to do with pregnancy, and yet we remained somewhat ignorant of the exact mechanics of went on inside the body. We’ve known that sex leads to pregnancy for a long time, possibly for longer than we’ve even been human. 5 A Scientist Dressed Frogs in Tight Pants to Prove the Origin of Life ![]() The real history of science is filled with misadventures just as ridiculous as the stories we tell children. So, does that mean scientists come upon all their formulations just by sitting at desks and performing boring calculations? Nope. In reality, some writer who wasn’t Newton came up with the apple story 60 years after the man’s death, nothing hit anyone’s head even in the story and the apple was just an illustration of gravity rather than a description of something that Newton really saw fall. An apple (so the story goes) fell on Isaac Newton’s head one day, and this led him to his theory of gravity. ![]()
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