Agreed, truth is where you find it, and sometimes one’s enemy has a clearer view of one’s weaknesses.
The German astronomer, William Herschel, was looking through his telescope in July of 1820 when he noticed an object he named “Nullvia,” cause he liked the name and numbered it: NGC-8790, Nullvia. The next day while observing the celestial object, he noticed something peculiar; it was alone in space, having nothing around in a circle of over 200 light years. My God Herschel exclaimed, “Nullvia is in a void!”
It was after Herschel died that a priest named Carlos “the silly” Campeche, in 1868, made a haplography error while transcribing Herschel’s NGC. Instead of “Nullvia is in a void,” he wrote “Null and Void” as an annotation next to NGC-8790, Nullvia. So now you know why Carlos Campeche got his moniker of Carlos “the silly.”