Re:Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful People
by KRAKRISMOTT on Sunday November 19, 2023 @07:10AM
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He lived 2 centuries before Newton, 3 centuries before Laplace, 4 centuries before Maxwell and 5 centuries before Noether, Einstein, and Shannon. That he doesn't believe the first law of thermodynamics is hardly his fault.
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Re:Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful People
by jacquesm on Sunday November 19, 2023 @07:23AM
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And all of those names effectively built on a foundation that Da Vinci helped establish. It wasn't modern science just yet but it was a massive step up from what came before.
And in a way that is probably his biggest contribution: to show that if science focuses on that which works and can be generalized there will be massive progress. Because for a single individual, especially in that age his output was extremely impressive and that couldn't have worked if he didn't channel his energy to areas that were deemed to be fruitful.