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| Topic | If Library of Alexandria wasn't destroyed, how much more might we have advanced? |
| Vertania 09/03/17 4:58:42 AM #29: | Crazyman93 posted... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel He kind of... was the church. Like, he was a monk and he ended up being the head of his monastery years after his experiment. Plus, he wasn't doing the experiment in an attempt to go against The Bible. The biggest reason the church didn't bother him, though, was that basically nobody knew about his work until about 1900, which was almost 20 years after he died. He wrote up his results, then sent them to another guy (I forgot who) who basically blew them off and told him to try it on another plant. The results didn't work out because the second plant (milkweed) crossed genes differently than pea plants. He basically gave up and his work faded into obscurity until other researchers rediscovered it independently while doing their own genetics experiments. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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