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

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (1 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

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 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

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Defini-diddilly does, Lemmarino!