QQC #4

Quote: "Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone's significance and merely made a few cautious and uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper. He thus missed the chance, half a century ahead of anyone else, to be the discoverer of dinosaurs. Indeed, the bone excited so little intrest that it was put in a store room and eventually dissaperared altogether. So the first dinosour bone ever found was also the first to be lost."

Question: Who discovered the first dinosaur? What made them think of this creature called the dinosaur? How do they know they assembeled them in the correct way the first time?

Comment: I think its ironic that he found this bone and didn't even look into finding out what it was! He just pushed it aside and went on with his life, when really he could have made this biggest discovery in his career.

QQC #3

Quote: "Starting with his back against the Tower of London, Norwood spent two devoted years marching 208 miles north to York, repeatedly stretching and measuring a length of chain as he went, all the while making the most meticulous adjustments for the rise and fall of the land and the meanderings of the road."
Question: How do we know that he didn't make a mistake? There are so many calculations he needed to make, so what if he is off by a couple miles?
Comment: I think that this is astounding what he did, I would never have the Patience to walk and measure that far. I also think its amazing that with all the technology we have nowadays that back in this time, to measure the length around the world they had to walk a section of it just to get an approximation reading.