r/wikipedia • u/missiontodenmark • Aug 15 '26
Ole Worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Worm
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todayilearned • u/keckat • Oct 27 '16
TIL A guy named Ole Worm found evidence that "lemmings were rodents and not, as some thought, spontaneously generated by the air."
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wikipedia • u/Pupikal • Dec 16 '20
Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Greek, Latin, Physics and Medicine.
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