• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    sounds like Newton was a chubby chaser. he would be so happy in the modern day US, perhaps he could have scored too

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    10 months ago

    You know he wrote his principia book in Latin because he didn’t want dummies asking him questions, only the snobbiest elite smart guys could even read the shit. He would not be a popular person in this day.

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          10 months ago

          He was also unpopular with English academics of his time. They didn’t dispute his beliefs, just his personality.

          Also the Catholic Church at the time was the primary patron of science in Europe.

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            10 months ago

            Yeah, Galileo didn’t get in trouble for his scientific views. The church asked him to write a book explaining the arguments for and against thr Copernican model, and he took that opportunity to insult the Pope.