Comment Re:Liebniz got "first" too- on Calculus. Fuck Newt (Score 1) 358
>>Well if you're going to credit Liebniz, what about Descarte?
Descartes already has plenty of credit to his name, a little of it undeserved. The famous cartesian plane (named for Descartes) was actually thought of by Fermat earlier. I believe that Descartes came up with this independently but I think I remember there being evidence of him stealing some discovery. Still, fermatian plane doesn't sound as good.
