That doesnt happen though. They all end up solving the same problems in different ways. Take watercrafts for example. Native Americans made canoes out of a solid log, Polynesians made rafts, the vikings made planked ships, etc.
I miss those caveman commercials.
/----/ Yes fuc*ing way. Try reading some history. It happens all of the time.
Youre trying to compare disovering oxygen and math with the precise technology of arrow and bow making?/----/ Yes fuc*ing way. Try reading some history. It happens all of the time.
Historians and sociologists have remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other.[1] "Sometimes," writes Merton, "the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before."[2]List of multiple discoveries - Wikipedia
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Commonly cited examples of multiple independent discovery are the 17th-century independent formulation of calculus by Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others, described by A. Rupert Hall;[3] the 18th-century discovery of oxygen by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier and others; and the theory of the evolution of species, independently advanced in the 19th century by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
Multiple independent discovery, however, is not limited to such famous historic instances. Merton believed that it is multiple discoveries, rather than unique ones, that represent the common pattern in science.[4]
Merton contrasted a "multiple" with a "singleton"—a discovery that has been made uniquely by a single scientist or group of scientists working together.[5]
A distinction is drawn between a discovery and an invention, as discussed for example by Bolesław Prus.[6] However, discoveries and inventions are inextricably related, in that discoveries lead to inventions, and inventions facilitate discoveries; and since the same phenomenon of multiplicity occurs in relation to both discoveries and inventions, this article lists both multiple discoveries and multiple inventions.
They got it off of the internet.
/——/ If you bothered to read the article it links to inventions that were created at the same time. GEEEZE reading comprehension is not your forte.
I already know that they arent the same inventions. That doesnt happen.
/——-/ You don’t know jack shyt.
Im unconvinced by your argument.
/——/ I no longer care what you think. You refuse to even consider the article.Im unconvinced by your argument.
