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Gregorian

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1. Very cool We stand on the shoulders of giants.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sun Jan 31, 2016, 12:29 PM

Jan 2016

But really we stand on the shoulders of everyone who came before us. Incremental concepts that lead to the next. Pretty amazing. I've always said that no one has invented anything. It is all presented to us, we just have to see it. The wheel was a small piece of log rolling down a hill, or a rock. Our brains are the mystery.

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Ancient Babylonians Used Geometry That Anticipated Calculus [View all] n2doc Jan 2016 OP

Very cool We stand on the shoulders of giants. Gregorian Jan 2016 #1

Take that Gottfried von Leibniz and Isaac Newton! longship Jan 2016 #2

Newton had better connections, IIRC. bvf Jan 2016 #7

Numeric integration! phantom power Jan 2016 #3

and Egypt's like, "oh, that ol' thing?" MisterP Jan 2016 #4

Galileo was also credited with a version of this theorem. Jim__ Jan 2016 #5

It is things like this that make me loathe religion... Moostache Jan 2016 #6