Medieval and early modern science:
Myth 1. That there was no scientific activity between Greek antiquity and the scientific revolution / Michael H. Shank
Myth 2. That before Columbus geographers and other educated people thought the earth was flat / Lesley B. Cormack
Myth 3. That the Copernican revolution demoted the status of the Earth / Michael N. Keas
Myth 4. That alchemy and astrology were superstitious pursuits that did not contribute to science and scientific understanding / Lawrence M. Principe
Myth 5. That Galileo publicly refuted Aristotle's conclusions about motion by repeated experiments made from the Campanile of Pisa / John L. Heilbron
Myth 6. That the apple fell and Newton invented the law of gravity, thus removing God from the cosmos / Patricia Fara
Myth 7. That Friedrich Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828 destroyed vitalism and gave rise to organic chemistry / Peter J. Ramberg
Myth 8. That William Paley raised scientific questions about biological origins that were eventually answered by Charles Darwin / Adam R. Shapiro
Myth 9. That nineteenth-century geologists were divided into opposing camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians / Julie Newell
Myth 10. That Lamarckian evolution relied largely on use and disuse and that Darwin rejected Lamarckian mechanisms / Richard W. Burkhardt Jr
Myth 11. That Darwin worked on his theory in secret for twenty years, his fears causing him to delay publication / Robert J. Richards
Myth 12. That Wallace's and Darwin's explanations of evolution were virtually the same / Michael Ruse
Myth 13. That Darwinian natural selection has been "the only game in town" / Nicolaas Rupke
Myth 14. That after Darwin (1871), sexual selection was largely ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) resurrected the theory / Erika Lorraine Milam
Myth 15. That Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation on the basis of scientific objectivity / Garland E. Allen
Myth 16. That Gregor Mendel was a lonely pioneer of genetics, being ahead of his time / Kostas Kampourakis
Myth 17. That social Darwinism has had a profound influence on social thought and policy, especially in the United States of America / Ronald L. Numbers
Myth 18. That the Michelson-Morley experiment paved the way for the special theory of relativity / Theodore Arabatzis and Kostas Gavroglu
Myth 19. That the Millikan oil-drop experiment was simple and straightforward / Mansoor Niaz
Myth 20. That neo-Darwinism defines evolution as random mutation plus natural selection / David J. Depew
Myth 21. That melanism in peppered moths is not a genuine example of evolution by natural selection / David W. Rudge
Myth 22. That Linus Pauling's discovery of the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia revolutionized medical practice / Bruno J. Strasser
Myth 23. That the Soviet launch of Sputnik caused the revamping of American science education / John L. Rudolph
Myth 24. That religion has typically impeded the progress of science / Peter Harrison
Myth 25. That science has been largely a solitary enterprise / Kathryn M. Olesko
Myth 26. That the scientific method accurately reflects what scientists actually do / Daniel P. Thurs
Myth 27. That a clear line of demarcation has separated science from pseudoscience / Michael D. Gordin.
