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Phlogistons didn’t look ridiculous at first, though. It’s easy in retrospective to sit on the top of accumulated curated knowledge in a condescending fashion an
by psychoslave 3y ago
Phlogistons didn’t look ridiculous at first, though. It’s easy in retrospective to sit on the top of accumulated curated knowledge in a condescending fashion and laugh at traps into which past scientists fall into.
It might look odd that Robert Boyle went as far as concluding that phlogiston has negative mass, but we yet have to wonder what future human generations will think about dark matter and dark energy.
- kijin 3y agoI think my wording was confusing. The phrase "at first" was supposed to qualify the idea of vitamins, not phlogistons. In other words, "You think the lack of this substance causes scurvy? What is this negative pathogen you're talking about, phlogistons?"