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I've talked with someone about this recently and that was their take as well. That eventually, certain discoveries are inevitable. Because everything builds on
by bena 4y ago
I've talked with someone about this recently and that was their take as well. That eventually, certain discoveries are inevitable. Because everything builds on everything else.
If it wasn't Newton/Leibniz, it would have been someone else. Galileo may have been the first/most prominent, but if it weren't him, it would have been someone else.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoAgreed. Darwin had to rush publishing the theory of natural selection before Russell did it.
- pirate787 4y agoGalileo's accomplishments were extraordinary, and made at significant personal risk -- he was the subject of an Inquisition. He was a polymath who made groundbreaking contributions to observational astronomy, modern physics, and the scientific method/ practice of modern science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
- bena 4y agoThat is all true. And it would have been someone else if not him. Maybe not exactly right then, but in that time frame. We were ready to discover these things. Let me put it this way, if Galileo lived in another time frame, he would have discovered calculus. He would have invented the steam engine. Etc. Yes, his intellect allowed him to be able to get there, but a man like Galileo would have been at the forefront of his chosen field in any time period. And many men like Galileo have existed throughout time. Even contemporaneously with Galileo.