Revision history of "Stigler's law of eponymy"

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• cur | prev 2024 a reader (talk | contribs) . . (4,565 bytes) (+45) m . . (talk: is this article named after whoever wrote it. asking for a reason and not idly) (current)
• cur | prev 2019 MudGeometer_1844 (talk | contribs) . . (4,520 bytes) (−60) . . (IF NOBODY NEVER DONE IT FIRST THEN WHO DONE IT. I WANT A NAME)
• cur | prev 2018 the IAU (talk | contribs) . . (4,580 bytes) (+240) . . (→ Resolution B4: the relation is henceforth the Hubble–Lemaître law, 78 per cent in favour. two names are not one right one and the law stands)
• cur | prev 2016 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (4,340 bytes) (+190) . . (→ named a razor after a filing clerk of 1856 who never advanced the method and never used the word. adding it below as an instance, in the same edit)
• cur | prev 1980 a festschrift contributor (talk | contribs) . . (4,150 bytes) (+480) . . (created page under its present title and credited the whole of it to Merton. the reader is invited to finish the argument without assistance)
• cur | prev 1972 the Monthly (talk | contribs) . . (3,670 bytes) (+260) . . (→ prints 'Who Discovered Boyer's Law?', which answers its own title, names the law for a man who did not state it, and says so in the first line)
• cur | prev 1968 R. K. Merton (talk | contribs) . . (3,410 bytes) (+320) . . (→ the Matthew effect: unto every one that hath shall be given. named it after a Gospel, that being the only exit from this I can find)
• cur | prev 1938 F. Benford (talk | contribs) . . (3,090 bytes) (+170) . . (→ the same fact again, fifty-seven years after Newcomb, at greater length and with better tables. the name attached within the year)
• cur | prev 1929 E. Hubble (talk | contribs) . . (2,920 bytes) (+150) . . (→ the same relation, in English, in the Proceedings. the law follows within the year and it is not the language that did it)
• cur | prev 1927 G. Lemaître (talk | contribs) . . (2,770 bytes) (+280) . . (→ the recession goes as the distance. published in French, in Brussels, in a journal nobody outside it reads. see talk)
• cur | prev 1881 S. Newcomb (talk | contribs) . . (2,490 bytes) (+200) . . (→ the leading digits are not evenly distributed; I had it off the wear on the library's log tables. filed and forgotten)
• cur | prev 1868 V. Reeve (talk | contribs) . . (2,290 bytes) (+50) m . . (→ talk: the priority of the above motion has been debated at four sittings and reached, as is our custom, no conclusion)
• cur | prev 1866 the Athenaeum (talk | contribs) . . (2,240 bytes) (+60) m . . (→ moved that nothing further be named after anybody at all. carried, and the motion has since been attributed to three separate members)
• cur | prev 1823 H. Olbers (talk | contribs) . . (2,180 bytes) (+180) . . (→ why is the sky dark at night. asked before me by Kepler, by Halley and by de Chéseaux, and the question is now mine)
• cur | prev 1809 C. F. Gauss (talk | contribs) . . (2,000 bytes) (+120) . . (→ used the above without claiming it. it has nevertheless been mine for two hundred years and I have not been asked)
• cur | prev 1733 A. de Moivre (talk | contribs) . . (1,880 bytes) (+300) . . (→ derived the curve. printed privately, in Latin, in an edition small enough to be overlooked, and it was)
• cur | prev 1705 E. Halley (talk | contribs) . . (1,580 bytes) (+220) . . (→ the comet of 1682 will return in 1758. I shall be dead, and I expect it will be called mine, and I did not find it)
• cur | prev 1696 G. de l'Hôpital (talk | contribs) . . (1,360 bytes) (+260) . . (→ published the rule. Bernoulli is acknowledged in the preface in general terms and nowhere in particular, as our agreement provides)
• cur | prev 240 BC a court astronomer (talk | contribs) . . (1,100 bytes) (+160) . . (→ logged a comet. it will be logged at every return from here to the eighteenth century and named after none of us)
• cur | prev c. 530 BC the Pythagoreans (talk | contribs) . . (940 bytes) (+240) . . (→ attributed the above to our founder, who left no writings and is therefore in no position to decline)
• cur | prev c. 1800 BC a Babylonian scribe (talk | contribs) . . (700 bytes) (+700) . . (created page; the triples, cut into clay. left it unsigned, which turns out to have been the whole of my mistake)

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