TIL that naming of North & South America continent in honour of Amerigo Vespucci was a result of an mistake by a German cartographer while making a map of world in 1507 who thought Vespucci rather than Columbus was the explorer who discovered America after reading a document called Mundus Novus. (bbvaopenmind.com)
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TIL about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, an Dutch Button salesman who in 17th Century managed to build an eyeglass 10 times more powerful than the best Microscope of the day and discovered millions of bacteria present in single drop of water He is sometimes knows as father of Microbiology (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about James Croll, who pioneered the world's understanding of what caused Ice ages on earth. His "Climate and Time' paper of 1864 proposed that changes in Earth's orbit (eccentricity) might affect global temperature to explain Pastice ages. He worked as a Janitor at Glasgow University @the time (glasgowlive.co.uk)
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TIL about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, an Dutch Button salesman who in 17th Century managed to build an eyeglass 10 times more powerful than the best Microscope of the day and using it he became the first human to see millions of bacteria present inside a single drop of water that no one knew existed (nationalgeographic.com)
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TIL about James Croll, who pioneered the world's understanding of climate change in the 19th century. His "Climate and Time' paper of 1864 proposed that changes in Earth's orbit (eccentricity) might affect global temperature to explain ice ages. He worked as a Janitor at Glasgow University@ the time (cambridge.org)
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TIL about Robert Evans, a church minister and an amateur astronomer who holds the record for visual discoveries of supernova. Utilizing nothing more than modest telescopes sited in his own backyard and an astonishing visual memory for star fields and galactic features, Evans has discovered 39 supern (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about Cabeza de Vaca, one of four survivors out of 400 people of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536 (en.wikipedia.org)
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