Talk:Ole Worm

Latest comment: 1 year ago by BjKa in topic Where is it now?


Factual accuracy disputed edit

I've added a {{disputed}} template to this page as I feel that some of the uncited statements in it are somewhat unbelievable. If anyone can verify these statements and provide citations to prove that they are true, then please do so. It particular, I'm referring to this claim in the article:

"His other empirical investigations included providing convincing evidence that lemmings were rodents and not, as some thought, spontaneously generated by the air"

gorgan_almighty 13:33, 13 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Worm published his research on lemmings, which species he named mus norvagicus in Museum Wormianum (1655): he had a lemming as a pet in his house, which he dissected after its death, and kept the skeleton as a specimen. --Taikad (talk) 17:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)Reply
Sounds good. Do you have a citation on that? 71.135.164.110 (talk) 19:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)Reply


Where is it now? edit

Can Worm's collection of curios be visited at "Nationalmuseet i København"? Or what happened to it? --BjKa (talk) 02:13, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply