3rd March 2004, 2:11 PM
No, to Fitisize. I think I was typing my response when you were submitting yours or something...
Anyway, yes that is true ABF. I'll have to actually look into the stuff he thought of. It's just that, even for the time (they had the same brains as we do you know, and all the technology that Galileo used when he came onto the scene), some of that stuff just seemed silly. There's a reason it's Galileo and not Aristotle who is considered the father of modern science.
Anyway, yes that is true ABF. I'll have to actually look into the stuff he thought of. It's just that, even for the time (they had the same brains as we do you know, and all the technology that Galileo used when he came onto the scene), some of that stuff just seemed silly. There's a reason it's Galileo and not Aristotle who is considered the father of modern science.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)