Comment on this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 year agoWell, he popularized it, but the Pythagoran theorem was something ancient civilizations had already figured out.
Comment on this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 year agoWell, he popularized it, but the Pythagoran theorem was something ancient civilizations had already figured out.
bdkmshr@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Documenter that documented their document gets the document credited to documenter
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s really just whose discovery spread the fastest. There have been a few instances in history where parallel discoveries happened, but it got named after the guy who got it popularized fastest.
Plus, the records of the civilization that discovered it were lost for a few millenia. But it’s not the first thing that’s been rediscovered a few times.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
Unless the “documenter” wasn’t a real person.
The Pythogean Cult is very fun reading.
Vant@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m sorry about your head injury.