Joint Discoveries Are Common
Joint discoveries are quite common in science.
Discoveries are not in general made before they have been led up to by the previous trend of thought, and by that time many minds are in hot pursuit of the important idea.
Examples of joint discoveries:
- Law of natural selection: Darwin and Wallace
- Discovery of Neptune: Adams and Leverrier
- Creation of differential calculus: Newton and Leibniz
– An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead
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