Whats so fascinating about Ancient Egypt, Maya and Greece?

[res]

Nature is that way. The leader of the pack always takes share of what gets discovered in their territory. Whether we're talking Wolves, Lions, monkey's or scientists,....its not unique to the industrial revolution.

Archimedes was the big name and probably got credit for stuff his mentors or underlings came up with. Its nothing to be ashamed of. Even Einstein piggybacked off Faraday and Maxwell. No one works in a vacuum .

Now you're changing the subject. There is a difference between building your own independent work on the previous work of others and stealing other people's work. Faraday and Maxwell get credit for what they did.

[Joeyzagz]

Now you're changing the subject. There is a difference between building your own independent work on the previous work of others and stealing other people's work. Faraday and Maxwell get credit for what they did.

Faraday and Maxwell existed only 200 years ago, so its not hard for us to trace where Einstein got his shit from.

But Archmedes was 2200 years ago, his true sources are lost to the sands of time. Either that or he's a God.

[res]

Faraday and Maxwell existed only 200 years ago, so its not hard for us to trace where Einstein got his shit from.

But Archmedes was 2200 years ago, his true sources are lost to the sands of time. Either that or he's a God.

They are not Einstein's "sources" they are simply scientists that came before him, just as Euclid, Pythagoras, Thales of Miletus, Archytas , Menaechmus
Hippocrates (of Chios) etc. etc. came before Archimedes.

[Dynamite76]

The ancient Egyptians were a heavy influence on the ancient Greeks, hell, the Minoans were major trading partners of the ancient Egyptians.It's a known fact that the major part of the Ancient Egyptian civilization started from sub-saharan Africa.As far as Ramses the second, he was from Avaris, which was in the Nile Delta, which siince the beginning, was a mixture of cultures.My guess is, he is an African-Asian mixture.

[Barn]

Nature is that way. The leader of the pack always takes share of what gets discovered in their territory. Whether we're talking Wolves, Lions, monkey's or scientists,....its not unique to the industrial revolution.

Archimedes was the big name and probably got credit for stuff his mentors or underlings came up with. Its nothing to be ashamed of. Even Einstein piggybacked off Faraday and Maxwell. No one works in a vacuum.

How did Einstein piggy back of Faraday and Maxwell?

He proved them wrong... They thought light was a wave but Einstein demonstrated with the photoelectric effect that it can act as a particle or packets of energy as well. This was essentially the foundation of Quantum Mechanics.

If anything he piggybacked off Plank who worked out Planks constant to solve the Ultraviolet Catastrophe but thought it was a mathematical trick rather than anything to be investigated.

Turns out Energy = Planks constant x Frequency, so it was helluva important and that's only the beginning of the constant.

Not to mention Einsteins work on relativity, Bose-Einstein condensates amongst other stuff.

[res]

How did Einstein piggy back of Faraday and Maxwell?

He proved them wrong... They thought light was a wave but Einstein demonstrated with the photoelectric effect that it can act as a particle or packets of energy as well. This was essentially the foundation of Quantum Mechanics.

If anything he piggybacked off Plank who worked out Planks constant to solve the Ultraviolet Catastrophe but thought it was a mathematical trick rather than anything to be investigated.

Turns out Energy = Planks constant x Frequency, so it was helluva important and that's only the beginning of the constant.

Not to mention Einsteins work on relativity, Bose-Einstein condensates amongst other stuff.

I suppose he means because Faraday and Maxwell helped highlight the most basic idea of Electromagnetism: the unity of all electrical, magnetic and optic phenomenon