The output of historic geniuses is just insane. The sheer amount of work and discovery and creation they did seems too much for one lifetime. I just don’t understand how they managed all they did.
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People have touched on the “how did they find the time” thing.
The other thing to remember is that a lot of what they did discover wasn’t necessarily crazy complicated. It’s just not many people at the time were looking. Today a lot of easy meat is picked off the bone and what’s considered easy enough for an undergraduate research project is typical considered banal.
Ideas about calculus in certain specific domains (especially polynomials) predate Newton and Leibniz. Kant’s work is based on what he perceived to be the mistakes of his predecessors, and Michaelangelo and Beethoven didn’t need to find the time – that was their literal day and night job their whole lives from childhood.
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