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I thought Newton was a mathematician, not a scientist. > the intuition of the crowds sucks. If it was any good, we'd have had the right physics in 5,000 BCE no
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
I thought Newton was a mathematician, not a scientist.
> the intuition of the crowds sucks. If it was any good, we'd have had the right physics in 5,000 BCE not starting in the 17th century.
Eh. People used to stay in their lane. Only these days can you get a city person voting on proper farming techniques.
- wolverine876 3y agoNewton was a mathematician and arguably the most important scientist in history. I recommend his biography - it's amazing reading.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoI'm the kind of person who is completely disinterested in biographies.
- wolverine876 3y agoFine, but then why talk about Newton if you are aware you know nothing about them? Talk about what you know.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoIt's not as if I haven't been exposed to his laws of motion in physics courses. I just think of them as more math (or heck, even philosophy) than science.
- wolverine876 3y agoI'm always interested in unique perspectives, but at the same time, English has a meaning outside any individual's concept of it. > Newton was ... not a scientist. That has a meaning, and its false. Whatever you personally think of it, Newton was a scientist. I don't love a wild goose chase.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoI guess so. It's hard for me to think of anyone prior to about the mid 1800s as a scientist, but sure, he qualifies by the standards of the day. I still don't understand why people view Linnaeus' classification as scientific though. I guess maybe because it functioned as a hypothesis of common descent later on?
- dragonwriter 3y ago> I thought Newton was a mathematician, not a scientist. Newton was a mathematician, scientist, alchemist, theologian (though, by the view of most Christians at the time and now, quite a heterodox one), and high government official that conducted undercover investigations personally. People can sometimes do more than one thing, and Newton did...a lot.