Leonardo DaVinci or Issac Newton?

[Raziaar]

That's a dumb Leonardo. This is a cool crazy old coot Leonardo.

 

[CR0M]

Newton didn't invent gravity, Newton didn't discover gravity (like no other human being before him ever wondered why stuff fell to the ground and not up), and as yet there is still no reasonable explanation as to what causes gravity.

Gandalf on the other hand invented the tank, the submarine, the roflcopter, wooden birds, intricate helmets, and stone pyramid parachutes (colossal failure, see 'Egypt').

 

[Viperidae]

One was a pretentious prick.

The other was mentally ill, which led him to have odd mood swings.

Hmmmmmmm.

 

[Solaris]

Newton didn't invent gravity, Newton didn't discover gravity (like no other human being before him ever wondered why stuff fell to the ground and not up), and as yet there is still no reasonable explanation as to what causes gravity.

Newton pretty much created mechanics and showed how forces such as gravity behaved.

He did discover it, because he said all mass was attracted to all other mass, something, I believe nobody else could demonstrate.

 

[Sheepo]

Newton didn't invent gravity, Newton didn't discover gravity (like no other human being before him ever wondered why stuff fell to the ground and not up), and as yet there is still no reasonable explanation as to what causes gravity.

rofl?

 

[Eejit]

I guess you're too subtle for some people CR0M.

 

[Lyric Zulu]

My vote goes to Newton because without calculus and advanced mathematics, we wouldn't have computers.

 

[Hobostomp]

Definitely Da Vinci - someone else would have discovered gravity eventually...

 

[Emporius]

Da Vinci, Newton was a total cock.

 

[theotherguy]

Newton, by far.

Newton did so much to revolutionize the field of science that he changed the world forever. Newton kicked off the enlightenment, and inspired millions of scientists for centuries to try to discover the laws of nature.

Newton was incredibly brilliant; an unparalleled genius of mathematics and scientific rationalism.

We are forever in debt to him for discovering the very basis of physics (force, mass, momentum, angular momentum, gravitation), and for making the scientific revolution popular among the masses.


His accomplishments range far beyond laying the foundations of physics; for he also invented calculus, produced the first reflecting telescope, discovered the electromagnetic spectrum, the binomial theorem, linear system approximation, and layed the foundation for the analysis of infinite series.


DaVinci was brilliant polymath, but he did not have many accomplishments. He didn't do serious scientific study, and instead focused on art and invention.

 

[Raziaar]

People long before Newton understood the concept of gravity in their own ways. But Newton took it many, many steps further in such a way that changed the scientific world forever.

 

[Saturos]

As much contribution to science and math Newton has made, I'd have to say DaVinci for the sole reason that his early mechanical concepts were just so awesome.

DaVinci imo was more practical whilst Newton was more scholarly.

Biography of DaVinci

Biography of Isaac Newton

Also, DaVinci's early mechanical concepts helped pave the way for modern machines long before Newton's theories.