Justice




DIO 1.1 [1991] p.3 n.3: “it's worth remarking (for contrast) the necessarily critical or ‘negative’ thrust of so much of the best work that rewrites history. (After all, nobody says, e.g., he didn't reach the Pole when he actually did.) Nonetheless, one can find numerous Dennis Rawlins redemptions (some already published) of unjustly treated [or underappreciated] figures”.


Examples (a few non-deceased) are listed below:



  • Aristarchos of Samos.

  • Aristyllos.

  • Hipparchos.

  • Tycho Brahe.

  • Pierre LeMonnier.

  • William Herschel.

  • Urbain J. J. Leverrier.

  • William Morton.

  • Frederick Cook.

  • Otto Schmidt & Ivan Papanin.

  • Henshaw Ward.

  • Roald Amundsen & Oskar Wisting.

  • Lincoln Ellsworth.

  • Umberto Nobile.

  • Bernt Balchen.

  • Richard Byrd.

  • Hack Wilson.

  • Charlie Keller & Tommy Henrich.

  • Oscar Villarejo.

  • Ralph Plaisted.

  • Wally Herbert.

  • Aubrey Diller.

  • Roger Billard.

  • David Dicks.

  • Bart van der Waerden.

  • Robert Newton.