Some countries have strict laws about naming babies. New Zealand authorities, for example, denied a request to name some twins Fish and Chips. • Halley’s Comet seen centuries before English astronomer Edmund Halley ever spotted it...
Stigler’s Law states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer, and the same pattern shows up in other eponyms. Venn diagrams were popularized by John Venn in the 1880s, but Leonard Euler had introduced similar diagrams...