On 21 May 2014 21:51, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote: > > However, the inventions and technology does not come form science it > is the other way: techniques created by artisans with intuition and > essay-error precedes science ever. > > The wright brothers were bicycle artisans. Fulton was not a professor > of termodynamics. Their sciences did not exist at his time. was their > machines the ones that possibilitated the experiences and the > experiments. >
The Wright brothers were just one in a long line of people who gradually developed powered flight, so I don;t see any particular significance to them being bicycle repair men. And I don't know who Fulton was - I think Carnot, Boltzmann etc developed thermodynamics? > > "Consider Britain, whose historic rise during the Industrial > Revolution came from tinkerers who gave us innovations like iron > making, the steam engine and textile manufacturing. The great names of > the golden years of English science were hobbyists, not academics: > Charles Darwin, Henry Cavendish, William Parsons, the Rev. Thomas > Bayes. Britain saw its decline when it switched to the model of > bureaucracy-driven science. > Well in general only upper class tinkerers and hobbyists could afford the time and effort to pursue science in those days. Hence the stereotypical scientist was someone like Frankenstein. That image persisted well into the 20th century. I can't parse the rest of your post so like Wittgenstein I will pass over it in silence. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
