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One thing did come to mind, is that if Cardano was the inheritor of the Da Vinci collected works, why didn't he list Vinci in the top 12?

Yes, Thomas Bayes resonates a little in Hmolpedia: “People like Isaac Newton, Thomas Bayes, Kepler, Bacon, Leibniz, Faraday, Lord Kelvin, Max Planck and Einstein, were all men who saw no conflict between science and god.” — Bo Jinn (2013), Illogical Atheism (loc. 1676) Particularly in the MaxEnt sch...

Yes, I’ll process those considerations. Presently, my mind is a little over-processed, with the migration in process (to make any adjustments); with the list now at about 1,100 geniuses. Migrating the IQ tables over to the new wiki is a bit of an absorbing process. In the last few hours, to note, I ...

I found this so far: “The key scientists are: Archimedes, Ptolemy, Aristotle, Euclid, Scotus, Swineshead, Apollonius, Archytas, Eutocios, al Khwarizmi al Kindi, Heber Hispanus, Galen, and Vitruvius.” — Gerolamo Cardano (1550), De Subtilitate (§16: De Scientiss) Added here: https://hmolpedia.com/page...

“Swineshead’s intellect was ‘beyond the measure’ of human ingenuity’. — Julius Caesar Scaliger (c.1540), Publication; cited by Reijer Hooykaas (1976) in Fact, Faith, and Fiction in the Development of Science (pg. 138) According to Hooykaas, Cardano ordered his 12-person ranking as follows: 1. Archi...

Ptolemy | IQ:175|#241 Aristotle | IQ:195|#9 Euclid | IQ:185|#54 Duns Scotus | IQ:150|#893 Swineshead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Swineshead “The great mathematician Gerolamo Cardano include Swineshead among the twelve greatest thinkers of all time.” — George Sarton (1975), Introduction to ...

So far I can only get access to the following quote: “Yet he named, as the ten greatest intellects in history, men not overwhelmingly Christian: Archimedes, Aristotle, Euclid, Apollonius of Perga, Archytas of Tarentum, al Khwarizmi, al-Kindi, Geber, Duns Scotus, and Richard Swineshead, all …” — Will...

Article done now:
https://hmolpedia.com/page/John_Lienhard

Ok, I have deleted you.

Also, to put the previous post into context (at least my mental recent context), I just spent the last half dozen hours work in on the Prometheus heat model of life: https://hmolpedia.com/page/Prometheus Where you might note that “life” is the second ranked (by links) term in Hmolpedia, behind therm...