Of course they were not called "geeks" in their time, but the 17th and 18th centuries were amazing times in mathematics and science. As you read, you will meet each of the scientists first in adolescence (the author's hook) and then learn about their education and accomplishments. Skip around in the book if you wish to get your bearings or choose one character to read about in detail first.
Consider this--several of the math/sci geniuses knew and communicated with each other...in LATIN--the only language they had in common! And you thought Career's Latin requirement was just a quaint throwback to classical learning.
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I never thought that Latin was a quaint throwback to classical learning. It comes in hand and will continue to do so in life, just like the saying goes, nothing learned is useless. During the SAT, for example, it will come in handy. Most people do not believe this but take the word "abase", for example, if you did not know the meaning and you knew Latin you could figure it out for example, "a" means to and "base" means ground, so "abase" means you are to the ground meaning humble. Mr. Wight like you mentioned they were not called geeks (geeks with the negative connotation), but they did do some pretty mean things to them. For example, the Royal Society, mocked fun of Issac Newton when he was explaining how it is not the white light that is pure, but the color lights. The general public also mocked Albert Einstein because we was apparently slow, which he was not he was just more interested in the things that we going on around him in the world that we usually take for granted. In Newton's cause the bullying was so harsh that it caused him to the make the decision to not publish his work anymore, while in Einstein's case, he actually did not care about other people's opinions and did what he was meant to do. What do you think?
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