Comment Re:You know a country is leading ... (Score 2) 362
# Best research papers are published in the local language, and not in a foreign language
# Scientists do not have to learn a foreign language to do research and read papers.
So, by your reckoning, Classical Rome was the leading country in medical and philosophical research until the 1700s, at least?
The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica were not written in English, you know...