Christian Bau (christian.bau at isltd.insignia.com) wrote:
: In article <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809221904170.17730-100000 at dillinger.io.com>,
: MA Lloyd <malloy00 at io.com> wrote:
: > FWIW the most popular work playing this game is probably Michael H Hart's
: > The 100. His ordering can of course be debated, but it isn't too bad; I
: > doubt you can make a decent case for anybody he hasn't put in the top 25.
: > His entries in the top 25 that fall into this millenium are Newton,
: > Gutenberg, Columbus, Einstein, Pasteur, Galileo, Darwin, Copernicus,
: > Lavoisier, Watt, Faraday, Maxwell, and Luther.
: Very often, you can take a name and then say "well, if he hadnt done it,
: someone else would.". If Columbus hadnt (re)discovered the Americas,
: someone else would. In the list above, Martin Luther would be the only one
: not in this category, so that is a good reason to make him Man of the
: Millennium.
I have to disagree with you on atless two of them.
Gutenberg - Movable Type (Right?) Printing Blocks existed for atleast a
thousand years from China. If anyone was going to do it, it would have
been done earlier.
Einstien - I think that it takes a special type of mind to do thought
experiments at the level/details/new view that he did. It would have
taken years longer and this would have affected both the cold war as well
how the WWII ended.
Earl Colby Pottinger
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