On Thursday 23 July 2015 04:09, Rustom Mody wrote: > tl;dr To me (as unprofessional a musician as mathematician) I find it > arbitrary that Newton *discovered* gravity whereas Beethoven *composed* > the 9th symphony.
Newton didn't precisely *discover* gravity. I'm pretty sure that people before him didn't think that they were floating through the air weightless... *wink* Did gravity exist before Newton? Then he discovered it (in some sense). Did the 9th Symphony exist before Beethoven? No? Then he composed it. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
