At 2:41 PM -0400 6/16/99, Louis_Schmier wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Paul Brandon wrote:
>> Parenthetic historical note:
>> Leibnitz and Newton are usually credited with the independent origin of the
>> calculus.
>> Descarte is credited with the orign of anaytic geometry; related, but not
>> the same thing.
>
>Paul, of course, you're right. My error. Decartes' analytic geometry was
>necessary for Leibnitz and Newton.
One of the giants on whose shoulders Newton claimed to stand.
>There is no science without scientists just as there is no religion
>without religionists...
That's what I said at the beginning of my post:
Both are categories of human behavior.
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