Animal Name Genus Epithet Scientific Name Human Homo Sapien Homo sapien Wolf Canis Lupus Canis lupus Lion Panthera Leo Panthera leo Who developed the system for scientific names? Animal scientific name classification was developed by Swedish botanist Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus in the 1700’s. His proces...
Named after the Greek god of the sky, the planetUranuswas discovered by the famous astronomer William Herschel in 1781. Too dim for the ancient scientists to see with the naked eye, it was the first planet to be located using a telescope. As a result, Uranus was thought at first to be...
It is not our objective to argue directly for, or against, the work under this label. Rather, given the effort by several governments to promote and fund an agenda under this name, we explore what has been done and how it has been pursued. This leads us to consider the program (and ...
Herschel (1787) classified the moons of Uranus as planets. The literature shows there was universal agreement among heliocentrists that moons are planets and that this taxonomy co-evolved with the theory of heliocentrism for pragmatic benefit (e.g., Kepler, 1620; Wing, 1654; Brigden, 1659; ...