3 the greatest event in the history of science trolling

We offer you a selection of amazing facts about the cases trolling in science.

1. Sir Richard Owen zatrollit his opponent after smerti

Once Sir Richard Owen joined with Charles Darwin in a serious discussion. He argued that the theory of evolution is not consistent. The dispute lasted for a long time, but one of the greatest troll in the history of science it does not do it.

Richard Owen was a pioneer in the field of paleontology. He stole the work of his colleague Gideon Mantell, and then used his influence to finally crush the opponent. As a result, Mantell died unrecognized and in poverty. But Owen has just started.



After the death of colleague Owen wrote an obituary Mantell (under a pseudonym, of course), which strongly blackened it. Then the spine Mantell was placed in the museum for research - he broke it at the age of four years, and lower vertebrae have since remained strangely twisted.

Of course, the responsibility for this museum carried none other than Owen. He picked up the spine, preserved in alcohol in his bank and presented as a case of congenital monstrous mutation.

In 1882, Owen died, and the spine then thrown in the trash, when purified from the Museum of junk.

2. Carl Siegel threw his thesis colleagues okean

Carl Siegel and his colleague Erich Bessel-Hagen German mathematicians were long familiar with each other, so that when the Bessel-Hagen needed a man who could see his dissertation, he certainly went to Siegel. Siegel soglaen, but for some reason decided to read a dissertation on the ship - apparently he thought that nothing is better understanding of the calculus of variations and the theory of functions, such as wind and salty ocean water.



At the same time, Siegel was busy with his scientific work in a completely different field, and work colleagues, he found the thesis show him dull and stupid. Since Bessel-Hagen was his old and good friend, the Siegel instead defer work colleagues and come back to it later thrown overboard boring reading.

Yes, it was, this man just took the job that his friend spent hundreds of hours of their own lives, and threw it into the ocean. Please note that it was in the 19th century, and copiers and computers did not yet exist, so that the work of Bessel-Hagen existed in single copy.

Then Siegel told his friend that he did it for his own good, and have dutifully coordinates of where exactly he threw work. The only trouble is that the paper stack can not sink like a treasure chest, and will remain intact on the ocean floor.

3. Galileo Troll Dad Rimskogo

At the time of Galileo, there were three competing models of the universe. The basis of the first two lay geocentric model: it was assumed that the earth - is the center of the universe, and the sun and the other known planets revolve around it. The third system was the model of Copernicus, which was placed in the center of the sun. Geocentric models were more popular because they support the church.

Galileo was impossible to offer convincing proof of the Copernican theory. Then he decided to put it as simply one of the possible theories. After lengthy conversations with Pope Urban VIII on the topic Galileo told His Eminence that he was going to write a book about the models of the solar system as objectively as possible and so that theories became clear to everyone.



Instead, Galileo wrote a book called "Dialogue" in the form of a conversation between the three lovers of science: kopernikantsem Salviati, a neutral party Sagredo and Simplicio, a supporter of the geocentric model of Ptolemy, and, although no copyright findings in the book did not have the force of arguments in favor of the Copernican system say for itself. Unfortunately, the Pope in a simpleton Simplicio found himself: Galileo thoughtlessly put in the book of phrases from their private conversations.

Of course, the Pope was angry, and Galileo was prosecuted. As a result, he had to recant his ideas to avoid the death penalty.

via factroom.ru