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Somebody's something: Terms named for their discoverers

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St. Vitus's dance
any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
Buckley's chance
n
no chance at all or only a slim hope.
Berenice's Hair
the constellation Coma Berenices, situated north of Virgo.
Townsend's solitaire
n
a brownish, slender-billed songbird, of western North America.
Aristotle's lantern
a complex arrangement of muscles and calcareous teeth and plates.
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Atwood's machine
n
a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
God's penny
money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
Jacobson's organ
either of a pair of blind, tubular, olfactory sacs in the roof of the mouth, vestigial in humans.
Fermat's theorem
an integer raised to a prime power leaves the same remainder as the integer itself when divided by the prime.
Newton's rings
the pattern of light interference produced by the contact of the convex surface of a lens with a plane glass plate.
Pride's Purge
the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
Fingal's Cave
n
an overture, opus 26, composed in 1832 by Felix Mendelssohn.
Napier's bones
a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory.
Occam's razor
n
the maxim that assumptions introduced to explain a thing must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
Wallace's line
an imaginary boundary that separates the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions.
Aaron's-beard
a St.-John's-wort, having evergreen foliage and showy yellow flowers.
Peck's Bad Boy
n
a recalcitrant person or organization.

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