Newton found that one law of gravity holds the apple and the Moon, that white light is a mix of colours, and calculus. Here is each discovery, with dates and his own words.
No writer from Arthur's own time names him. Here are the main early sources side by side, what each one really says, and the honest case for and against a real Arthur.
Build a world through a character, keep a short list of facts that never change, and grow it one place at a time. A practical method for AI worldbuilding.
Holmes called it the science of deduction, but most of his famous inferences are abductions. Here is the difference, in his own words from the stories.
The Monkey King's whole story, from a stone egg to a Buddha, with the chapter for each scene, his seven names, his real powers and why he wears the golden headband.
Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly and woke unsure which was the dreamer. Here is the full passage, where it sits in the book, and the main ways to read it.
Sixteen real passages on learning and teaching from the Analects, each with its number, and three famous 'Confucius quotes' that turn out to be someone else's.
Every virtue on Aristotle's list sits between two vices. Here is the full table from the Nicomachean Ethics, and why the golden mean is not the same as moderation.
Leonardo designed a flying machine, a parachute, an armoured vehicle and a 280-metre bridge. Here is where each is drawn, and which ones anyone actually built.
Ada Lovelace's 'first program' is a 25-step table that works out a Bernoulli number. Here is how it runs, where the bug is, and why her credit is still argued over.
Tesla vs Edison was a fight over how to send electricity. Here is how AC beat DC between 1882 and 1896, and which famous stories about the two rivals are myths.
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