User contributions for Ajrocke
A user with 1,247 edits. Account created on 7 March 2007.
26 May 2024
- 17:1117:11, 26 May 2024 diff hist −218 Robert Bunsen →Retirement and death: Statement is true, but too trivial to mention in a Wikipedia biography current Tag: Manual revert
30 April 2024
- 18:1718:17, 30 April 2024 diff hist +1,165 Talk:Plum pudding model →Example of damaging false and misleading information
- 17:5617:56, 30 April 2024 diff hist +102 Talk:Plum pudding model →My diagram
12 April 2024
- 18:1418:14, 12 April 2024 diff hist +43 Kimberly Bergalis More historicall precise language.
- 18:0818:08, 12 April 2024 diff hist −17 David J. Acer Undid revision 1218350543 by 217.155.0.154 (talk)there was nothing wrong with the wordings that last editor corrected, and he/she offered no rationale for the corrections. If you want to edit, it's best to register and justify your edits. current Tag: Undo
4 April 2024
- 20:1020:10, 4 April 2024 diff hist −7 Lorgia García Peña →Career: better grammar
31 March 2024
- 13:5813:58, 31 March 2024 diff hist +6 Antikythera mechanism To write "all fragments" implies that there are no missing fragments yet to be recovered, but in fact there probably are some missing fragments that will never be found; hence it is necessary to wrote all THESE fragments
26 March 2024
- 12:0212:02, 26 March 2024 diff hist −115 History of atomic theory The first sentence was unnecessary, for everyone knows what "history of" means; what readers need to know in the first sentence is simply what "the atomic theory" is.
23 March 2024
- 23:2123:21, 23 March 2024 diff hist −69 Théophile-Jules Pelouze although baptized with two given names, he was known to contemporaries as (and signed his name to his publications as) Jules Pelouze
- 23:1323:13, 23 March 2024 diff hist +18 Iodine →History: correction
- 19:1119:11, 23 March 2024 diff hist +10 History of atomic theory →See also
20 March 2024
- 23:0523:05, 20 March 2024 diff hist +697 User talk:Ajrocke →law of multiple proportions current
19 March 2024
- 18:4318:43, 19 March 2024 diff hist +1,424 Talk:History of atomic theory →Requested move 21 February 2024
- 12:3712:37, 19 March 2024 diff hist −10 Case Western Reserve University no longer interim as of Jan. 1, 2024
15 March 2024
- 13:5513:55, 15 March 2024 diff hist +5 John Dalton →Early life: existing records cannot determine whether his birth occurred on the 5th or the 6th; see top of article, which accurately reflects this circumstance
- 13:5313:53, 15 March 2024 diff hist −47 John Dalton →See also: the history of philosophical atomism is not relevant to this article; no source has argued that Dalton's introduction of chemical atomism was influenced by ancient philosophical atomism
14 March 2024
- 17:2617:26, 14 March 2024 diff hist −2 History of atomic theory Oops. Changed plural to singular.
- 17:2517:25, 14 March 2024 diff hist −9 History of atomic theory Since it was John Dalton who introduced the scientific atomic theory into chemistry and physics (as opposed to philosophical atomism), and he did so after the year 1800, I am deleting the reference to the 18th century.
28 February 2024
- 17:4217:42, 28 February 2024 diff hist −4 Tetanus better grammar logic
21 February 2024
- 16:1016:10, 21 February 2024 diff hist +54 Thomas Street (astronomer) →Astronomy: correction of a major error
17 February 2024
- 01:0901:09, 17 February 2024 diff hist −1 Isaac Newton's apple tree →The apple incident: more careful wording; the idea that the apple hit Newton's head is a later jocular fiction
15 February 2024
- 18:0718:07, 15 February 2024 diff hist +8 Isaac Newton's apple tree →The apple incident: Gribbin is an astronomer, who wrote a book of popular history of science with Mary Gribbin; neither is a professional historian of science.
- 18:0118:01, 15 February 2024 diff hist −327 Isaac Newton's apple tree See justification in Talk page; the detail of the apple hitting his head was a later jocular embellishment; the story is only that he SAW an apple fall; also deleting the source cited that promulgates this false story.
- 17:5017:50, 15 February 2024 diff hist +547 Talk:Isaac Newton's apple tree →Animation of apples hitting Newton on the head: Reply current Tag: Reply
8 February 2024
- 13:1013:10, 8 February 2024 diff hist +13 Michelson–Morley experiment →Michelson–Morley experiment (1887): The diagram to the right is not labeled "figure 5", so it must be identified in the text in a different way.
- 13:0513:05, 8 February 2024 diff hist −5 Michelson–Morley experiment clearer statement
7 February 2024
- 14:4314:43, 7 February 2024 diff hist +44 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium →Reception: Specifying the well-known source of this quotation
6 February 2024
- 18:2918:29, 6 February 2024 diff hist +54 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium →Census of copies: Clarifying
5 February 2024
- 18:4718:47, 5 February 2024 diff hist +9 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium →History: Clarifying; the Urdi Lemma was just one of several novelties in Copernicus's system, and not the most important one by far, which was heliocentrism.
- 18:4318:43, 5 February 2024 diff hist −68 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium →History: The Alphonsine Tables were not a version of the Ptolemaic system (see Wikipedia article); they were tables of planetary positions calculated from Ptolemaic assumptions; so there is no relevant reason to mention them in this context.
- 18:3718:37, 5 February 2024 diff hist +15 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium →History: clarifying, to prevent misunderstanding
2 February 2024
- 18:5518:55, 2 February 2024 diff hist +241 Gay-Lussac's law →Law of combining volumes: Cleaning up and clarifying this section
24 January 2024
- 17:0417:04, 24 January 2024 diff hist +181 Benzene →Ring formula: Edits for greater clarity.
- 16:5616:56, 24 January 2024 diff hist −44 Benzene →Discovery: parenthetical phrase was unhelpful
- 16:5516:55, 24 January 2024 diff hist +5 Benzene →Discovery: correcting a link
- 16:5416:54, 24 January 2024 diff hist 0 m Benzene →Discovery
- 16:5216:52, 24 January 2024 diff hist −13 Benzene undue vandalism
23 January 2024
- 17:2517:25, 23 January 2024 diff hist +6 m Peter Desaga No edit summary current
- 17:2417:24, 23 January 2024 diff hist +93 Peter Desaga Surviving source do not enable us to know the exact relative contributions of Desaga and Bunsen on the invention of the Bunsen burner, just that both men were important in that story.
17 January 2024
- 16:0116:01, 17 January 2024 diff hist +33 Mesenchymal stem cell Edits for clarity and completeness
16 January 2024
- 15:0615:06, 16 January 2024 diff hist −14 Friedrich Wöhler Undid revision 1196133519 by Samrudh2007 (talk)unnecessary and unhelpful Tag: Undo
13 January 2024
- 20:5820:58, 13 January 2024 diff hist −26 Piano Trio (Clara Schumann) improving the English
- 14:2914:29, 13 January 2024 diff hist +42 De re metallica →Book VII: On the assaying of ore: Not undated, this is the same illustration that appeared in the original Latin edition of 1556; I checked sources to confirm that this illustration appeared in Book VI of the German edition.
4 January 2024
- 14:5214:52, 4 January 2024 diff hist +237 Talk:Zosimos of Panopolis →When did he live?: Reply Tag: Reply
1 January 2024
- 14:1314:13, 1 January 2024 diff hist −194 Naphtha This is described below; hence it is redundant here.
30 December 2023
- 18:1918:19, 30 December 2023 diff hist −675 Jöns Jacob Berzelius Simplifying and clarifying; "Berzelius Day" was a one-time event, not a tradition.
- 14:1314:13, 30 December 2023 diff hist −209 Organic compound Simplifying the language, eliminating redundancy, and clarifying this opening.
18 December 2023
- 21:2921:29, 18 December 2023 diff hist +1 Talk:Periodic table →article title
- 21:2921:29, 18 December 2023 diff hist +1 m Talk:Periodic table →article title
17 December 2023
- 18:1418:14, 17 December 2023 diff hist +867 Talk:Periodic table →article title
