Galileo's accomplishments were extraordinary, and made at significant personal risk -- he was the subject of an Inquisition. He was a polymath who made groundbreaking contributions to observational astronomy, modern physics, and the scientific method/ practice of modern science.
And it would have been someone else if not him. Maybe not exactly right then, but in that time frame.
We were ready to discover these things. Let me put it this way, if Galileo lived in another time frame, he would have discovered calculus. He would have invented the steam engine. Etc.
Yes, his intellect allowed him to be able to get there, but a man like Galileo would have been at the forefront of his chosen field in any time period. And many men like Galileo have existed throughout time. Even contemporaneously with Galileo.
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Galileo's accomplishments were extraordinary, and made at significant personal risk -- he was the subject of an Inquisition. He was a polymath who made groundbreaking contributions to observational astronomy, modern physics, and the scientific method/ practice of modern science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
That is all true.
And it would have been someone else if not him. Maybe not exactly right then, but in that time frame.
We were ready to discover these things. Let me put it this way, if Galileo lived in another time frame, he would have discovered calculus. He would have invented the steam engine. Etc.
Yes, his intellect allowed him to be able to get there, but a man like Galileo would have been at the forefront of his chosen field in any time period. And many men like Galileo have existed throughout time. Even contemporaneously with Galileo.