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I'm still not over this. Imagine confronting the notes of one of the greatest, most influential minds of human history and being "horrified and dismayed" rather than FUCKING ECSTATIC to discover that he behaved differently than what you assumed. YOUR MODEL OF GENIUS WAS WRONG https://t.co/Hvxhmk4WKv
newton would copy stuff over and over. sarah dry, who wrote a book about this, said that the dudes who inherited newton's papers might've been disappointed that he spent so much time making copies fools!! everything is a remix! all learning begins with imitation! https://t.co/3HrZ6o3PTM
"he was a great scientific hero. but he also wrote about alchemy and even more about religious matters. [...] disappointing to see your intellectual father copying this stuff over and over" what do you mean BUT?!?! *clearly* he was ON to something and you're REFUSING to see it
what did they assume?? that a great scientific mind would sort of just, sit under a tree, get enlightened, write a few elegant sentences, and that's how you advance humanity? you fuckers. 😠newton agonized over his stuff. he was curious and prolific
@visakanv I think he translated the Sumerian word for 'water of life wrong". Imagine how much more progress he could have made had he not been using gallons of horse urine and instead used semen or beer. I can' even tell if he fermented the urine to get ammonia.