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90% of All the Scientists That Ever Lived Are Alive Today (futureoflife.org)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I doubt that. Science and philosophy used to be considered very closely related. Many people we think of as philosophers were really both scientists and philosophers in their time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, an awful lot of ancient civilizations knew an awful lot about astronomy and presumably it wasn't all just dictated to them on clay tablets by Ishtar or whoever