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g_bacon_is_tasty t1_iuq66nm wrote

Reply to comment by kromem in Does Science Need History? A Conversation with Lorraine Daston by Maxwellsdemon17

People don't like thinking of "premodern" people as being intelligent, or even as people. Aristotle is popular in modern times because it lets "modern" people jerk themselves off by going "ha ha look at the ancient Greek cavemen people who were too stupid to invent phones because they think space is made of aether." I'm surprised people give proper credit to all the varied and disparate examples of calculus being developed independently of each other.

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garmeth06 t1_iuqb27b wrote

OP probably got banned after an argument due to trying to find vague connections to past philosophizing while presenting it as relevant towards understanding modern quantum mechanics interpretations with rigour.

The attitude that you're referring to I really don't think exists with any significant passion in the physics community.

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Felevion t1_iuqaq4j wrote

A lot of this thinking goes back to the Renaissance. Many of the myths that get parroted to this day are from that period since the people then were trying to portray themselves as being more 'enlightened' than the people that came before them.

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