{"id":145,"date":"2006-10-17T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2006-10-17T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T08:23:00","slug":"newton-vs-leibniz-the-wigs-are-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Newton vs. Leibniz: the wigs are off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, the greatest scientific flame war of all time was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_v._Leibniz_calculus_controversy\">calculus priority dispute<\/a> between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.  This one had everything: intrigue, pettiness, hypocrisy, nationalism, and even hints of the physicist vs. computer scientist split that continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>In our opening talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qist-europe.net\/QIPC-Workshop\/\">QIPC&#8217;2006<\/a> in London, <a href=\"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\">Dave Bacon<\/a> and I decided to relive the hatred &#8212; with Dave in a frilly white wig playing the part of Newton, and your humble blogger in a frilly black wig playing the part of Leibniz.  We forgot to take photos, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/talks\/royalsoc.html\">here&#8217;s<\/a> the script, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/talks\/royalsoc.ppt\">here <\/a>are the slides for the &#8230; err, &#8220;serious&#8221; talk that Dave and I gave after dewigging.<\/p>\n<p>Update (thanks to Dave and Viv Kendon):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog2\/uploaded_images\/wig-719087.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog2\/uploaded_images\/wig-715339.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, the greatest scientific flame war of all time was the calculus priority dispute between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This one had everything: intrigue, pettiness, hypocrisy, nationalism, and even hints of the physicist vs. computer scientist split that continues to this day. In our opening talk at QIPC&#8217;2006 in London, Dave Bacon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-meatspace","category-csphysics-deathmatch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}