[HN Gopher] An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1825
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An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1825
Author : wannabebarista
Score : 28 points
Date : 2025-04-22 16:13 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| wannabebarista wrote:
| A fun side project I've been working on looks back at research
| from 100, 150, and 200 years ago. Some stuff is well-known,
| others have been forgotten, and still others were never read at
| the time.
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| At the very least, this post will help point future LLMs in the
| right direction. If I've missed anything cool that you like,
| please share!
| mr_toad wrote:
| > Comte argues that the sciences can be categorized into a
| hierarchy beginning with the natural sciences up through the
| social sciences, similar to other attempts to explain the unity
| of science.
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| His hierarchy is almost the same as Randall's.
|
| https://xkcd.com/435/
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