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116 Post author: RobinHanson 17 March 2009 01:39PM

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Comment author: gwern 18 March 2009 04:51:20PM 5 points [-]

Roko: rather than picking out of random, it'd be better to start with a survey of the historical literature. Fortunately, the search and statistical ranking has already been done in Human Accomplishment.

For the combined science index, we get:

  • Newton
  • Galileo
  • Aristotle
  • Kepler
  • Lavoisier
  • Descartes
  • Huygens
  • Laplace
  • Einstein
  • Faraday

It's a list that seems reasonable to me, as surprising as Lavoisier, Huygens, and Faraday may be.