Post by Olanrewaju Peace Ajidagba

In his unfinished History of Civilisation in England, published in 1857, the self-taught historian Henry Thomas Buckle declared that one of the acute reasons for the unscientific nature of history was that “the most celebrated historians are manifestly inferior to the most successful cultivators of physical science.” “No one having devoted himself to history,” he continued, “who in point of intellect is at all to be compared with Kepler, Newton or many others.” One wonders what Isaac Newton would have made of such a conclusion. Read via this link: https://lnkd.in/eRzV8Cc6