| ▲ | gjm11 3 hours ago | |
We tried this experiment with humans, back in the 17th century, and only a few[1] out of millions managed it given a whole human lifetime each. [1] Obviously Newton counts as one. Leibniz like Newton figured out calculus. Other people did important work in dynamics though no one else's was as impressive as Newton's. But the vast majority of human-level intelligences trained on texts prior to Newton did not create calculus or derive the equations of motion or come close to doing either of those things. | ||