Template:Are You Sure/April 14

• ... that mathematician Emmy Noether made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics?

• ... that cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius created the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, and that Ortelius was among to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions?

• ... that mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and made contributed to the science of dynamics?

• ... that mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands?

• ... that Christiaan Huygens wrote, in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII: "proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art alike."?

• ... that medieval Andalusian polymath Ibn Rushd (often Latinized as Averroes) was a defender of Aristotelian philosophy against Ash'ari theologians led by Al-Ghazali, and although Ibn Rushd was highly regarded as a legal scholar, his philosophical ideas were controversial: whereas al-Ghazali believed that any individual act of a natural phenomenon occurred only because God willed it to happen, Ibn Rushd insisted phenomena followed natural laws that God created?