This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.
Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.
Things Science got Wrong
- Alchemy
- Earth-centric Universe
- Babies are conceived entirely from male seed
- Luminiferous Ether
- Four Humours
- Disease is due to miasma or the four humours
- Phrenology
- Martian Canals
- Phlogiston
- Electrons as tiny balls