Monday, January 16, 2006

Fast Forward

The 15th and 16th centuries are up, so here's the 17th and 18th centuries' greatest scientists:

17th century

Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
Chrsitaan Huygens
Anton van Leewenhoek
Robert Hooke


18th century

Sir Isaac Newton
Edmund Halley
Thomas Newcomen
Daniel Farenheit
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph Black
Henry Cavendish
Joseph Priestly
James Watt
Charles de Coulomb
Joseph Montgolfier
Karl Wilhelm Scheele
Antoine Lavoisier
Count Alessandro Volta
Edward Jenner
John Dalton
Andre-Marie Ampere

Again, who's missing? Where are the women? How many countries or cultures are represented here? Who are the b%$&*rds and who are the saints?

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