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Britain has the likes of Newton, Turing, Maxwell and Faraday.
Germany has the likes of Gauss, Planck, Leibniz and Euler
Where are their French equivalents? Why is it that the nation that was once the most populous and wealthiest country in Europe is so underrepresented in pretty much any list of the greatest scientists, mathematicians etc.? What limitations did France have that only made them capable of producing second tier scientists like Pascal and Descartes that are entirely outclassed by their German and British counterparts? Is it culture? Work ethic?
>>1382155
So I guess you're going to pretend you don't know of the Curies and Pasteur?
pascal, lavoisier, coulomb and pasteur
>>1382168
>the Curies
the credit should go to Becquerel but it went to meme curie because she had a vaj
I can't believe this thread exists.
>>1382168
>>1382178
But that's the thing, they're all outshined by equivalent scientists from the UK or Germany. Pascal by Newton and Leibniz, Coulomb by Faraday, Lavoisier by Boyle, Pasteur by Edward Jenner. There is no field in which the French truly dominated or utterly revolutionized like all before, they were always a step behind the Germans and British in that regard.
>>1382190
That's not your original question. You stated that there were no French equivilents.
>>1382190
So this is just a thread about how you dont like french scientists and intellectuals?
>>1382155
>Where are their French equivalents?
doing chemistry instead of physics?
You can't be serious.
Jean Buridan and Nicolas Oresme are the founders of modern physics and calculus. Descartes revolutionised our entire way of thinking about science. Lavoisier is the father of modern chemistry. Pasteur is the founder of modern medicine. Pascal, Poincare, Galois, Laplace... are all on the level of those you listed. Not to mention how France crushes any other country in inventions.
France's importance in science, like in everything else, is only ridiculously underrated in pop culture for obvious reasons.
>>1382190
I wasn't 100% sure this was a pretending to be retarded thread, but now I am.
>>1382211
>France's importance in science, like in everything else, is only ridiculously underrated in pop culture for obvious reasons.
Pop culture today has a weird understanding of European countries' characteristics. France is thought of as that place where b&w movies and strange philosophy comes from, while Germany is engineering and science. Meanwhile just a century ago Germany was thought of as the hotblooded, romantic, artistic and metaphysical nation, while France was the cold, methodical, and scientific nation.
Brits were always jews.
>>1382228
>Meanwhile just a century ago Germany was thought of as the hotblooded, romantic, artistic and metaphysical nation, while France was the cold, methodical, and scientific nation.
Sauce on that? Historical stereotypes are pretty interesting.
>>1382322
Not him, but think about Schlegel, Hoffmann, Novalis, Tieck etc, all the great German poets of the Romantik era.
>>1382322
It's all over the place if you read contemporary literature. France was the country of logic and reason since the Middle Ages, of rationalism since Descartes, of great state administration and geopolitics since Richelieu, of reasoned politics since Rousseau, of full autism tier rationalism since the Revolution and the metric system, of the inflexible rule of law and military discipline since Napoleon...
Germany on the other hand was a collection of cute and comfortable little kingdoms with friendly beer-drinking people, known for its poets, musicians, and romantic authors.
>>1382362
Worth noting that feudal politics and state administration in France was pretty advanced, not to say convoluted, at the time of Philippe the Fair.
>>1382362
this chart seems right and false a the same time it's confusing
>>1383002
That and being the most important country for science, mathematics, engineering, art, architecture, philosophy...
