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I dunno, I heard about Eratosthenes long before I heard about any of them.

Then again, it is probably just the nature of their respective fields. Those three were philosophers, their ideas were applicable to politics and everyday life in their own time and every time since.

Physical science is a comparatively narrow field with regard to application. It was only recently that we realized how practical it really was.



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