loki on Nostr: who were the greatest scientist/poets? My votes go to Oppenheimer, who read the ...
who were the greatest scientist/poets?
My votes go to Oppenheimer, who read the Bhagavad Gita in its original Sanskrit, and opened the Atomic Age with deep poetic symbolism (Trinity from John Dunne's Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for example.)
and
Omar Khayyam who defined the Persian calendar for a millennium and linked algebra and geometry together in fundamental ways, while writing enough quatrains to form the Rubáiyát.
Very open if others have suggestions!
My votes go to Oppenheimer, who read the Bhagavad Gita in its original Sanskrit, and opened the Atomic Age with deep poetic symbolism (Trinity from John Dunne's Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for example.)
and
Omar Khayyam who defined the Persian calendar for a millennium and linked algebra and geometry together in fundamental ways, while writing enough quatrains to form the Rubáiyát.
Very open if others have suggestions!