>best physicist
Newton (England)
>best astronomer
Galileo (Italy)
>best biologist
Darwin (England)
>best chemist
Lavoisier (France)
>best geologist
Lyell (Scotland)
>best mathematician
Euler (Switzerland)
>best physician
Pasteur (France)
>best engineer
Watt (Scotland)
>best composer
Beethoven (Germany)
>best artist
Michelangelo (Italy)
>best Western writer
Shakespeare (England)
>best Western philosopher
Aristotle (Greece)
>final results
UK (5), France (2), Italy (2), Switzerland (1), Germany (1), Greece (1)
Britain won, Europe lost.
Cope
Newtonian physics is wrong though so this rank is pointless
UK 5 - more Yamnaya than farmer
France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece 6 - more farmer than Yamnaya
Germany - depends on the region
We won farmer Med bros.
UK is more farmer than Yamnaya.
>Book written by an English speaking American of Scots descent using mainly English source is completely toward Britain
Wow....
>is completely
is completely biased
>>best physician
>Pasteur (France)
hahahahahahaha
YOU are RETARDED!!!
I agree
t.French
That's correct though, he's credited with germ theory.
I'm sure that you're triple vaxxed aren't you.
The white race is superior and anglos are the superior stock of the white race. Highest rate of geniuses per capita and the closer a white population is to anglos genetically the higher their genius per capita rate.
IIRC Jap Ministry of Trade thought UK has been the most important inventor/discoverer in history
the only source for this is wikipedia, it's 100% a meme claim
But if feels true, so it must be
Angloids are subhumans who got lucky with the industrial revolution (which was a disaster for the human race).
Luck doesn't explain why anglos have more geniuses per capita.
Why Newton and not Einstein? Einstein btfo Newton
>Retarded book with OPs retarded opinion
One time I was on DXM and I came to the conclusion that I have to cope with my dislike of Germans because my girlfriend is ethnically British and British people are Anglo-Saxon which means they descended from Germanics a while back. It's all good though because they have good music
>best mathematician
Euler (Switzerland)
Gauss deserves this
>best artist
Michelangelo (Italy)
This is such an absurdly broad topic it has little meaning.
>best composer
Beethoven (Germany)
Again ridiculously broad, and completely unfair to equally great musicians in different ages and styles of music.
>best Western writer
Shakespeare (England)
This is correct for English but the Russians and the French have a serious say if you're just proclaiming a best "Western" writer.
Shakespeare is indeed the best writer all languages included
Jackie Collins best writer, but Shakespeare not too bad tho bit boring & superfacial
You can't even take the time to craft a better bait than that?
You are serious? She is world famus as "the Lady Bard", "person Who Tells it Like It really is", and "the Dreamweever".
Only you not know of any of this? kek
I know who she is buddy, my post was meant to insinuate that she isn't the level of author of someone like Fitzgerald, let alone even in contention for top 10% authors in the English language and daddy Bill.
But I find them (her book's) very rellaxing
It is impossible to take subjective measures for the entire human race into account, the point of a good list is to try and be as objective as possible, therefore, as much as it might be valuable to you, the list cannot take that into account.
If Jackie Collins not included in list, I will very upset. I would beat my wifes am so angry.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Other nations have strong literary and poetic traditions. I don't know how many languages you speak but reading something in its native language is so different than reading a translation it's unreal.
People who aren't fluent speakers of English can't appreciate the craft and beauty of someone like Shakespeare, they just can't. Same thing for an English speaker who doesn't speak fluent Russian trying to read Karamazov. In fact the more complex and artistic the work, the less it can be properly appreciated in other languages.
This makes it really impossible to claim that any one writer can be the best of them all. All you can realistically argue over is who is the best in a given language.
only true for poetry, prose translates decently
Decently is fine for 80% of literary works, but if you're talking about advanced, artistic works it doesn't hold water. I'll give you an example. To clarify, this guy is a good writer but he's not the greatest or anything he's just an example.
Natsume Souseki is a Japanese writer who wrote a book called, I am a Cat. Except the actual title of the book is Wagahai wa Neko de Aru. That translates, literally, to I am a Cat.
The problem is Japanese has certain ways of referring to oneself that English does not have. The basic bitch "I" pronoun is Watashi, the basic bitch "to be" verb is tbh. Wagahai, and De aru, are only used by very, very high ranking, old fashioned aristocracy, usually by the Emperor himself.
So to summarize, while Watashi wa Neko tbh(I am a cat), and Wagahai wa Neko de Aru(I am a cat), both mean literally the same thing, one promotes a tone, play on grammar, and insight into character that is completely and utterly absent in the translation. Not only absent, but incapable of being communicated.
Interesting, but remind me never to buy a cat in Japan, let alone read Asimov's "I, Robot" in Japanese.
Anon, never buy a cat in Japan, and for god's sake don't read Asmiov's "I, robot" in Japanese.
Domo arigato. But I may buy a robot cat called Asimov, to do the Lord's work.
>unfair to equally great musicians in different ages and styles of music.
the other great musicians are all german anyway bro, i think we can let germany this one
Most of them, but Rachmaninov is Russian, Chopin is a Kurwa, and Debussy and Satie are French.
I was taught Chopin was French at school
No his dad was half French and he loved French culture. He moved to France after he graduated from the conservatory in Warsaw and Francosized his name from Fryderyk Franciszek to Frédéric François.
His dad was fully French, he was an emigre who fled the French Revolution. Chopin was half-French.
oh Yes that's what I meant.
>>best composer
ITS VIVALDI!
>/misc/ still clinging on to murray
Nassim taleb anally demolished this guy's scholarship years ago. Why is he still a thing?
Taleb's a thin-skinned fag that can't even cope with the fact his first language is Arabic, who gives a fuck what he thinks
Taleb is a hack and a fraud.
>Darwin (England)
Malthus is way better,
>Galileo
Copernicus
>Lavoisier
Haber
>Shakespeare
Doesn't even reach the top 10
>Malthus
Well I ment Mendel is the best biologist by far. Malthus is pretty great too.
Shakespeare is the great writer in the history of the English language and that's that. I know it tickles your pickle to hold a different opinion because you think it makes you look cool, but really it only makes you look childish, and like you don't know what you're talking about, English has a huge and excellent literary tradition, one of the greatest of any language in history, and there is a reason one man is always at the top.
His subjects may not interest you, that's common nowadays, and the formulaic plot structure of his plays was a sacrifice on the altar of commerce in his day. Even so, the prose is immaculate and beautiful, the ideas expressed range from grand to diminutive, but are always expressed with the perfect emotions necessary for the task, the characters are expertly constructed, with many being such iconic manifestations of humanity that they've been used as templates for the last 500 years of literary artistry.
He is the greatest, and that's really all there is to say.
>His subjects may not interest you
They do. But they've been done far better. Shakespeare is indeed the template better writers have used to make better works.
Look I’m not unsympathetic to the fact that he wrote his stories half a millennium ago, and that mankind has changed its tastes to things more personable and intimate in character, at least as far as stories go. Having said that everything I said is still correct, and I, as a fairly well read person, defy you to name me a story about the complete transformation of a man who has lost everything in the twilight of his years as Kind Lear.
>>best physicist
>Newton (England)
A mystic who just found two formulas and otherwise told only bullshit
>>best astronomer
>Galileo (Italy)
You can't have the slightest grasp of astronomy
>>best biologist
>Darwin (England)
An idiotic, non functional thereticer who promoted the stupid ideas of his grandfather and failed in his own examples
>>best chemist
>Lavoisier (France)
There is no best in chemistry, only retarded can think that
>>best geologist
>Lyell (Scotland)
Because of Scotland or what
>>best mathematician
>Euler (Switzerland)
Way to much others Gauss, Fourier ezc.
>>best physician
>Pasteur (France)
Ok this is LULZ where retarded pretend be genius acting as retards.
>>best engineer
O my god because muuh he invented an vapor driven cylinder
>best composer
Beethoven (Germany)
Sure because Bach is above everything and surely your grasp of classical music
You hitlist is the standard list of a brainwashed retard with no own ideas, grasp or meaning.
LULZ is the right place for you, dumb mainstream pretend to be something different because some insults were not deleted.
>bach
kek alright drone
>Scotland
>Britain
Good one
Scotland is part of Britain.
It's hard to rank musical traditions
This is stupid
How do you decide that Aristotle is greater than Plato or Kant?
How do you decide that Euler is greater than Gauss?
How do you decide that Beethoven is greater than Bach or Mozart?
This is headcanon
Read the book and find out.