Re: Scientist of the Millennium

[crawford j maccallum <mccallum@unm.edu>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Neil D. Adams wrote:

> I think that Tycho Brahe should be considered based upon his
> revolutionary suggestion that going to the lab to take some measurements
> was the way to decide on the validity of opposing comological theories. 
> His suggestion took us from relying on past authority (frequently
> wrong/or not quite right) to placing our faith on what we could prove by
> experimentation.
I have to agree with this.  It was 'Brahe to Kepler to Newton' that
created modern science, a triple play requiring all three of them.