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Research can be done well or poorly. Good research with no outlet is not worth a whole lot more. Fine example: Newton needed an angel to get Principia Mathemat
by 8bitsrule 4y ago
Research can be done well or poorly. Good research with no outlet is not worth a whole lot more.
Fine example: Newton needed an angel to get Principia Mathematica published. It was edited, paid-for and seen through press by Edmond Halley. (Halley was not rich. He was lucky that it sold.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120512123330/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Halley.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120512123330/http://www-groups...