TIL: Isaac Newton’s main teacher was also a polymath genius. Giants’ shoulders all the way down! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Barrow …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Interesting. He did early work in differential calculus. Didn't know that.
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Yeah, I had gotten the idea that Newton and Leibnitz somehow consed it out of thin air, but the air was already dense with special cases,
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and what they actually did was to unify them into a single coherent framework.
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Replying to @Meaningness
Much easier to create a map when you are handed large fragments.
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Replying to @StephenPiment
Yes… and it’s another case of “major scientific discovery was going to happen around then regardless; they just got there first”
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Replying to @Meaningness
Yes, although this can only be reliably discerned in retrospect.
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Replying to @StephenPiment @Meaningness
For example, Newton's work in alchemy did not seem to result in much. http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/
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Also yup. And, there are some major discoveries that weren’t “about to happen” and got lost for decades before being rediscovered.
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Computing seems to fall into the latter category. Leibniz understood a startling number of the pieces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz#Computation …
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