Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Science has come a long way in understanding how our universe works and that road has been full of wrong turns and dead ends. Here are 6 scientific explanations that turned out to be way off track.
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Sources:
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/fantastically-wrong-how-to-grow-a-mouse-out-of-wheat-and-sweaty-shirts/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Pasteur/Spontaneous-generation
https://www.britannica.com/science/biology#ref498783
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/history/book5.html
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/generation/book3.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/06/08/dark-matter-vs-aether/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/04/21/the-failed-experiment-that-changed-the-world
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200711/physicshistory.cfm
https://www.aps.org/programs/outreach/history/historicsites/michelson-morley.cfm
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.020401
https://books.google.com/books?id=to8OAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false p216
https://www.britannica.com/science/phlogiston
https://eic.rsc.org/feature/the-logic-of-phlogiston/2000126.article
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/lavoisier.html
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/lavoisier/antoine-laurent-lavoisier-commemorative-booklet.pdf
http://www.chss.uqam.ca/Portals/0/docs/hps5002/Stud_Hist_Phil_Sci_v25n2_p159-190.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3143157?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.britannica.com/science/steady-state-theory
https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/steady-state-model-of-the-universe/amp/
https://history.aip.org/exhibits/cosmology/ideas/bigbang.htm
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20110816.html
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2011GL047450
https://www.hist-geo-space-sci.net/5/135/2014/hgss-5-135-2014.pdf
http://www.earth-prints.org/bitstream/2122/2017/1/MANTOVANI.pdf
https://www.hist-geo-space-sci.net/5/135/2014/hgss-5-135-2014.pdf
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/from-the-contracting-earth-to-early-supercontinents/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/mercury-the-planet-shrinks-as-it-cools
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Images:
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/maggot-of-fly-for-sport-fisherman-gm106458303-6041350
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/aristotle-portray-the-philosopher-gm172411889-4331403
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/house-fly-and-bee-illustrations-gm185111511-19447453
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/set-of-glass-jars-for-canning-and-preserving-vector-illustration-isolated-on-gm846771750-138853499
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dreamy-light-refraction-pastel-soft-pale-background-abstract-defocus-rainbow-gm531186409-55315198
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_spheres#/media/File:Ptolemaicsystem-small.png
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fireplace-gm498891142-79892091
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/burning-bonfire-with-wood-gm871355210-145516179
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/yellow-color-burning-fire-frame-gm853959940-140333267
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/burning-charcoal-gm865453156-143575701
https://www.nasa.gov/content/most-colorful-view-of-universe-captured-by-hubble-space-telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/distant-quasar-RXJ1131.html
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-captures-epic-earth-image
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA11245.html
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/19th-century-engraving-of-louis-pasteur-at-work-in-his-laboratory-victorian-gm872138750-243617917
