The greatest englishman is not 牛顿 and 达尔文, but 弗朗西斯·培根 (Francis Bacon) and several the most famous statisticians: John Graunt, William Petty, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, William Sealy Gosset and Ronald Fisher. These people established a complete new methodology to know the nature and the whole world. If there were not 弗朗西斯·培根, there would be no the statisticians; if there were NO the statisticians, we could not imagine the current sciences and techniques as well as the social progress.
TNEGI//ETNI 发表评论于
The greatest englishman is not 牛顿 and 达尔文, but 弗朗西斯·培根 (Francis Bacon) and several the most famous statisticians: John Graunt, William Petty, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Ronald Fisher and William Sealy Gosset. These people established a complete new methodology to know the nature and the whole world. If there were them, we could not imagine the current science and techniques as well as the social progress.
yayajuju 发表评论于
Add to your list of "英国人的贡献":
1. English as a language
2. Constitutional Mornachy
3. Fine literature (painting and composing aren't quite as fine comparing to other European countries)
4. Oxford and Cambridge
5. Computer - Charles Babbage
6. Internet - Tim Berners-Lee (but invented in MIT)
7. Bicycles + TV
8. codified the rules for most international sports
9. Wimbledon
10.Discovery of DNA in Oxford
11.Steven Hawking
12.Economics (free trade, capitalism, liberalism)- Adam Smith, Keynes
13.The agricultural & industrial revolutions
14.Negative & colour photography
15.Hitchcoke
16.the BBC (no advertisement + fine quality + politically neutral)
17.Mechanical inventions (railway, gas turbine, jet engine, automobile, etc.)
18. Crime fictions (Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes...)
19. Children stories (Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Rabbit, Harry Potter...)
20. Fantasy stories (Lord of the Ring, Dune...)
They have bad things as well,
(1) slave trade, but first to abolish the slave trade earlier than other countries.
(2) British Empire (although it did spread mordernity)
(3) Opium War
(4) Bad Food
Anglophile 发表评论于
Hi David, a friend just alert me of your blog. Very nice.
About the contributions of the Englishmen to the world, in addition to all the things that you mentioned, I must also add Magna Carta (the Great Charter of Freedoms). As early as 1215, English people already started to establish that the King must also obey the law, and that certain rights of people (freemen) were protected by these laws and must be respect. This really laid foundation that led to the constitutional forms of government of almost all developed countries today.