OK, it's alternate history month. So here's a question. Do certain brilliant and/or remarkable persons bear crucial significance for the various twists and turns of history, or do they just happen to be the right people showing up at the right time? I mean, if there's a certain set of processes going on in a society, is the emerging of a great
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Now, political leaders are a different story. Sure, Hitler happened to be the right (actually: wrong) guy at the time things were ripe for Germany to go nuts and plunge Europe into another war. But what about some guys who did pretty unique things that didn't make any sense at the time, but had a great impact, like Alexander the Great, etc? All I'm saying is that it varies.
I'd say it's more like events happen when the circumstances demand them to happen, but it often takes an extraordinary person to facilitate it.
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But the Principia is pretty universally regarded as the most important book of science ever written, if you have Latin enough to read it. (I report this not having enough of a grasp of the language to have read the Principia in the original.)
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not that i drink much or anything ;) but shoot I'll drink to that. My poor Tesla - what a hard life he had :(
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