The 100 Most Influential People - Try the Third

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621

And it came to pass on that day, that there went out a decree from Sternvogel that Caesar Augustus should be eliminated.

Augustus Caesar

622

Aristotle’s successors like Averroes, Abelard, Duns Scotus, and Aquinas founded the Scholastic method, which really was an intellectual dead end. They wasted all their time arguing over things so pointless that they were neither true or false - like the proverbial issue of how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. It was generations of smart people accomplishing nothing of any use.

Aristotlean science was similarly useless. Back in his day it wasn’t science it was “natural philosophy”. It was people who didn’t bother observing or gathering evidence - they just thought up interesting theories. This led to such absurdities as Aristotle’s “explanation” of why men have more teeth than women.

623

Aristotle

Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: “I drink, therefore I am”
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed!

624

Julius Caesar did some conquering but really he was just another wannabee dictator trying to take over as the Republic fell apart. The Gracchi brothers, Marius, Catalus, Sulla, Carbo, the Pompeys, Crassus, Cinna, Sertorius, Lepidus, Mark Antony - none of them succeeded in taking and holding power.

Augustus did.

625

Johann Gutenberg

626

Aristotle

627

Augustus Caesar.

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Aristotle

629

This is the last day for this round…

630

And the loser is, by one vote:

Augustus Caesar

Remaining Names:

** Aristotle, Greek Philosopher, Philosophy and Arts
Isaac Newton, British Scientist, Theory of Universal Gravitation and Motion, Science
Johann Gutenberg, Inventor, Inventor of Printing Press, Invention and Exploration**

631

My vote:

Johann Gutenberg

632

Aristotle

633

Aristotle

634

You all know who I’m voting for.

Aristotle for the win

635

Aristotle

636

Aristotle

637

I was planning to vote for him anyway, and resistance at this point would be futile:

Aristotle

638

Aristotle

639

Johann Gutenberg

Futiliy has never worried me much. :smack:
Movable type was in use before Gutenberg.

640

Newton. Leibniz co-invented calculus. And Newton worked in the midst of a more general scientific revolution. Or maybe I just prefer the other 2.