N1L N2L N3L wrote:
Probably not. In his day with Liebnitz, Newton simplified understanding but like all mathematicians and scientists he relied on numerous past achievements from Persia, Eqypt, Greece, India, Arabia, China, etc.
Not as numerous as the PC wonks makes things out to be. And notice how this fella has to put Liebnitz before Newton.
Could Be wrote:
Some give credit more so to the Renaissance when Europe effectively forever left the primitive era and caught up with civilizations of Central Asia, Black Africa, and East Asia. The Great Khan and his Mongols had transformed the gene pool of Europe from 1300AD re-seeding the vast area of Persia, Turkey, Russia, Poland, Baltics, etc. laying the foundation for the Renaissance with a new hybrid Euro-Mongol Race. The point is, how can we today expect the conditions which gave birth to the Renaissance ? We can't wipe out 85% of the population then wait 400 years for the fruits to blossom with the likes of Netwon, Liebnitz, L'Hopital, etc. without entering the space of science-fiction writers ;-)
Complete fiction in terms of the actual genetic make-up of the populations of Western and Northern Europe. Are you a Khazar perhaps? Most likely.
malmo wrote:
What the heck wrote:Concerned Girl: Holy bejeezus he was smart
Malmo: Actually...
What exactly WAS your point if it was not as I inferred?
When someone makes a strong claim and someone else replies with "Actually..." it is pretty well understood that they are stating that the first claim is not really that impressive.
Is that too difficult for you to grasp?
Someone is need of a time out.
Maybe he does, but he sure has you pegged.
Abe Foxxxxman wrote:
Not as numerous as the PC wonks makes things out to be. And notice how this fella has to put Liebnitz before Newton.
What the hell does that have to do with PC?
I was looking around for the first politically correct response to this post, and you are the winner!
Newton "simplified" nothing. He certainly did note the simple achievements of the Persians, Egyptians, and Chinese. He then built upon the advanced math of the Greeks and he created modern mathematics and physics.
He took primitive notions of the concepts of limits and made them mathematically rigorous with his invention of the derivative and the definite integral.
You could take any of the true intellectual giants, like Einstein, Newton, Witten, Dirac, etc...and they could they could be transported to any future era and contribute to science.
Caught up with black africa? What politically correct history have you made up? Europeans did benefits from Greek mathematics, which did benefit from white Africans (the Egyptians).
Black Africans (from central and south Africa) were dancing around fires with bones in their noses when the light-skinned North Africans (Egyptians) were building the great pyramids. The only contribution Black Africans (BAs) made was providing the slave labor.
Please, educate us wrote:
Maybe he does, but he sure has you pegged.
No he doesn't.
Of course they'd be productive.
Those guys were creators. Don't limit them with knowledge. That's what most of the pencil heads have now.
The old guys made up their own stuff, supplying knowledge to the masses. I am sure they'd bring the same characterisitics to today's problems.
They were a big deal in their day since Europe was the last part of the world to be forced out of the caves by the hordes and take a bath and civilize. They would be lost in the crowd today with so many scientific acheivements being made.
Actually they might not win another Noble prize or whatever. Some of it was luck working on the right thing at the right time.