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It was his math contributions people liked. Particularly his invention of calculus which could be used to solve a plethora of unsolved math problems. It's not because he said things fell.
On the other hand, spontaneous generation was very much still a thing at this point, so a lot of the basic rules of the world around us were really not worked out yet
There was a post on lemmy the other day about things that get their names from real people. I forgot that "pasteurize" was also one
gerrymander is always a weird one, I dunno if flanderization counts but I'll just leave it here
Defini-diddilly does, Lemmarino!