Editing Anagram (section)

===Establishment of priority===
Natural philosophers (astronomers and others) of the 17th century transposed their discoveries into Latin anagrams, to establish their priority. In this way they laid claim to new discoveries before their results were ready for publication.

[[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] used ''{{not a typo|smaismrmilmepoetaleumibunenugttauiras}}'' for ''{{lang|la|Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi}}'' (Latin: I have observed the most distant planet to have a triple form) for discovering the [[rings of Saturn]] in 1610.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Miner|first=Ellis D.|author2=Wessen, Randii R.|author3=Cuzzi, Jeffrey N.|chapter=The scientific significance of planetary ring systems|title=Planetary Ring Systems|series=Springer Praxis Books in Space Exploration|publisher=Praxis|year=2007|pages=[https://archive.org/details/planetaryringsys0000mine/page/1 1–16]|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-73981-6_1|isbn=978-0-387-34177-4|url=https://archive.org/details/planetaryringsys0000mine/page/1}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath151/kmath151.htm|title=Galileo's Anagrams and the Moons of Mars|access-date=2009-03-16|work=Math Pages: History}}</ref> Galileo announced his discovery that [[Venus]] had [[Moon phase|phases]] like the Moon in the form ''{{lang|la|Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur oy}}'' (Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me -oy), that is, when rearranged, ''{{lang|la|Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum}}'' (Latin: The Mother of Loves [= Venus] imitates the figures of [[Artemis|Cynthia]] [= the moon]). In both cases, [[Johannes Kepler]] had solved the anagrams incorrectly, assuming they were talking about the [[Moons of Mars]] (''{{lang|la|Salve, umbistineum geminatum Martia proles}}'') and a [[Great Red Spot|red spot on Jupiter]] (''{{lang|la|Macula rufa in Jove est gyratur mathem}}''), respectively.<ref>{{cite web |title=Galileo, Kepler, & Two Anagrams: Two Wrong Solutions Turn into Two Correct Solutions |url=http://judgestarling.tumblr.com/post/62652246148/galileo-kepler-two-anagrams-two-wrong |website=Judge Starling}}</ref> By coincidence, he turned out to be right about the actual objects existing.

In 1656, [[Christiaan Huygens]], using a better telescope than those available to Galileo, figured that Galileo's earlier observations of Saturn actually meant it had a ring (Galileo's tools were only sufficient to see it as bumps) and, like Galileo, had published an anagram, ''{{not a typo|aaaaaaacccccdeeeeeghiiiiiiillllmmnnnnnnnnnooooppqrrstttttuuuuu}}''. Upon confirming his observations, three years later he revealed it to mean ''{{lang|la|Annulo cingitur, tenui, plano, nusquam coherente, ad eclipticam inclinato}}'' (Latin: It [Saturn] is surrounded by a thin, flat, ring, nowhere touching, inclined to the ecliptic).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Howard |first=N. |year=2004 |title=Rings and Anagrams: Huygens's System of Saturn |journal=The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America |volume=98 |number=4 |pages=477–510 |doi=10.1086/pbsa.98.4.24295740}}</ref>

When [[Robert Hooke]] discovered [[Hooke's law]] in 1660, he first published it in anagram form, ''{{not a typo|ceiiinosssttuv}}'', for ''{{lang|la|ut tensio, sic vis}}'' (Latin: as the extension, so the force).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gjertsen |first1=Derek |title=The Newton Handbook |date=1986 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |isbn=9780710202796 |page=16}}</ref>