Concept

Plate tectonics

The nature of fossils

Greenhouse effect and global warming

The age of the earth

Phlogiston vs. oxygen theory

Chemical periodicity and the periodic table

Avogadro's number

The Pythagorean Theorem

Every geometry student knows a²+b²=c², but where did this famous theorem come from? And what, if anything, does it have to do with Pythagoras?...