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Galileo's math was purely Euclidean. We own more to Bacon and Descartes for our modern mathematics and scientific viewpoints.
by astine 18y ago
Galileo's math was purely Euclidean. We own more to Bacon and Descartes for our modern mathematics and scientific viewpoints.
- eru 18y agoDo not forget Leibniz.
- astine 18y agoI didn't forget him, Leibniz was later. By the time Leibniz and Newton were around, modern ideas about the relationship of math and the sciences were already gaining acceptance.
- eru 18y agoThough I recently come to like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_history It de-emphasizes the 'Great Men'.