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To: jveritas
James Watt was an inventor as opposed to an actual scientist. Pascal's greatest contributions were in pure mathematics, not in physical sciences.

My top ten physicists, in chronological order: Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Rutherford, Einstein, Fermi, Heisenberg.

278 posted on 11/24/2005 11:02:23 AM PST by RightWingAtheist (Free the Crevo Three!)
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To: RightWingAtheist
Pascal came up with Pressure equation P= F/A and the universal unit for pressure is Pascal. He is one of the greatest physicists of all times.
290 posted on 11/24/2005 11:37:29 AM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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