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Forced Perspective: Sir William Jones gets lost in translation
- meigwilym 4y agoSir William Jones was the son of Welsh mathematician Williams Jones, who was notable for introducing the use of the symbol π.
- jhbadger 4y agoCharles Darwin read Jones' work on the relationship of Sanskrit to Western languages and Jones' hypothesis that the similarities were due to a common ancestor (although lost) of these languages was helpful to him in making the same sort of hypothesis of similarities of current animals being explained by extinct common ancestors.