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Equally important might be the milieu in which you exist - Newton was fortunate to be surrounded by people like Hooke and Boyle, who helped constitute a robust
by astazangasta 8y ago
Equally important might be the milieu in which you exist - Newton was fortunate to be surrounded by people like Hooke and Boyle, who helped constitute a robust scientific society that transmitted his ideas and gave them favor. He was not, say, merely laughed at, or burned at the stake, or told that his ideas had no marketable value.