14:2714:27, 22 June 2024diffhist−96
Justus von Liebig
German practice in general is to omit "von" in subsequent references to persons with that honor; ordinarily and generally, historians often even omit the "von" entirely, writing "Justus Liebig", except when inclusion of the "von" becomes important; all German names with "von" are alphabetized under the proper surname.
14:1014:10, 22 June 2024diffhist−1
Justus von Liebig
"trace" implies nutritional needs in the milligram or microgram range, such as for vitamins; plants need quite significant quantities of potassium, phosphorus, and other inorganic substances.
14:0314:03, 22 June 2024diffhist−9
Justus von Liebig
readers not fluent in German will be stopped and puzzled by the use of the German word Freiherr; the least we can do is to provide an immediate English translation in parentheses; infobox does not need to specify Freiherr at all, as he is rarely identified this way in the historical literature;
18:0818:08, 12 April 2024diffhist−17
David J. Acer
Undid revision
1218350543 by
217.155.0.154 (
talk)there was nothing wrong with the wordings that last editor corrected, and he/she offered no rationale for the corrections. If you want to edit, it's best to register and justify your edits.Tag: Undo
13:5813:58, 31 March 2024diffhist+6
Antikythera mechanism
To write "all fragments" implies that there are no missing fragments yet to be recovered, but in fact there probably are some missing fragments that will never be found; hence it is necessary to wrote all THESE fragments
26 March 2024
12:0212:02, 26 March 2024diffhist−115
History of atomic theory
The first sentence was unnecessary, for everyone knows what "history of" means; what readers need to know in the first sentence is simply what "the atomic theory" is.
13:5513:55, 15 March 2024diffhist+5
John Dalton
→Early life: existing records cannot determine whether his birth occurred on the 5th or the 6th; see top of article, which accurately reflects this circumstance
13:5313:53, 15 March 2024diffhist−47
John Dalton
→See also: the history of philosophical atomism is not relevant to this article; no source has argued that Dalton's introduction of chemical atomism was influenced by ancient philosophical atomism
17:2517:25, 14 March 2024diffhist−9
History of atomic theory
Since it was John Dalton who introduced the scientific atomic theory into chemistry and physics (as opposed to philosophical atomism), and he did so after the year 1800, I am deleting the reference to the 18th century.
18:0118:01, 15 February 2024diffhist−327
Isaac Newton's apple tree
See justification in Talk page; the detail of the apple hitting his head was a later jocular embellishment; the story is only that he SAW an apple fall; also deleting the source cited that promulgates this false story.
18:4318:43, 5 February 2024diffhist−68
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
→History: The Alphonsine Tables were not a version of the Ptolemaic system (see Wikipedia article); they were tables of planetary positions calculated from Ptolemaic assumptions; so there is no relevant reason to mention them in this context.
17:2417:24, 23 January 2024diffhist+93
Peter Desaga
Surviving source do not enable us to know the exact relative contributions of Desaga and Bunsen on the invention of the Bunsen burner, just that both men were important in that story.
14:2714:27, 22 June 2024diffhist−96
Justus von Liebig
German practice in general is to omit "von" in subsequent references to persons with that honor; ordinarily and generally, historians often even omit the "von" entirely, writing "Justus Liebig", except when inclusion of the "von" becomes important; all German names with "von" are alphabetized under the proper surname.
14:1014:10, 22 June 2024diffhist−1
Justus von Liebig
"trace" implies nutritional needs in the milligram or microgram range, such as for vitamins; plants need quite significant quantities of potassium, phosphorus, and other inorganic substances.
14:0314:03, 22 June 2024diffhist−9
Justus von Liebig
readers not fluent in German will be stopped and puzzled by the use of the German word Freiherr; the least we can do is to provide an immediate English translation in parentheses; infobox does not need to specify Freiherr at all, as he is rarely identified this way in the historical literature;
18:0818:08, 12 April 2024diffhist−17
David J. Acer
Undid revision
1218350543 by
217.155.0.154 (
talk)there was nothing wrong with the wordings that last editor corrected, and he/she offered no rationale for the corrections. If you want to edit, it's best to register and justify your edits.Tag: Undo
13:5813:58, 31 March 2024diffhist+6
Antikythera mechanism
To write "all fragments" implies that there are no missing fragments yet to be recovered, but in fact there probably are some missing fragments that will never be found; hence it is necessary to wrote all THESE fragments
26 March 2024
12:0212:02, 26 March 2024diffhist−115
History of atomic theory
The first sentence was unnecessary, for everyone knows what "history of" means; what readers need to know in the first sentence is simply what "the atomic theory" is.
13:5513:55, 15 March 2024diffhist+5
John Dalton
→Early life: existing records cannot determine whether his birth occurred on the 5th or the 6th; see top of article, which accurately reflects this circumstance
13:5313:53, 15 March 2024diffhist−47
John Dalton
→See also: the history of philosophical atomism is not relevant to this article; no source has argued that Dalton's introduction of chemical atomism was influenced by ancient philosophical atomism
17:2517:25, 14 March 2024diffhist−9
History of atomic theory
Since it was John Dalton who introduced the scientific atomic theory into chemistry and physics (as opposed to philosophical atomism), and he did so after the year 1800, I am deleting the reference to the 18th century.
18:0118:01, 15 February 2024diffhist−327
Isaac Newton's apple tree
See justification in Talk page; the detail of the apple hitting his head was a later jocular embellishment; the story is only that he SAW an apple fall; also deleting the source cited that promulgates this false story.
18:4318:43, 5 February 2024diffhist−68
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
→History: The Alphonsine Tables were not a version of the Ptolemaic system (see Wikipedia article); they were tables of planetary positions calculated from Ptolemaic assumptions; so there is no relevant reason to mention them in this context.
17:2417:24, 23 January 2024diffhist+93
Peter Desaga
Surviving source do not enable us to know the exact relative contributions of Desaga and Bunsen on the invention of the Bunsen burner, just that both men were important in that story.