sage Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I would suggest Leonardo da Vinci. Great painter and also sculptor, writer, botanist and inventor. He designed helicopters, tanks, calculators, solar energy panels and double hull ships, hundreds of years before they were manufactured. He was too far ahead of his time for most of his concepts to become reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFCfranco Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 sam franklin or daveo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I would suggest Leonardo da Vinci. Great painter and also sculptor, writer, botanist and inventor. He designed helicopters, tanks, calculators, solar energy panels and double hull ships, hundreds of years before they were manufactured. He was too far ahead of his time for most of his concepts to become reality. Don't forget he stared in Titanic too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Impossible to say. There might have been a subsistence farmer many thousands of years ago who stuck a post in the ground, walked backwards away from it and when it disappeared over the horizon, worked out the circumference of the earth as a multiple of his own height, and did it in his head - but because there was no written language, he was unable to record the information and consequently we had to wait until Eratosthenes of Cyrene 're-discovered' it. It has been estimated that Stephen Hawking's IQ is around 160, whereas people like John Stuart Mill was 'supposed' to have a 200+ IQ. However, there are many scales applied to IQ, and without knowing the scale, the age at which the person was tested, the conditions under which the test was taken and a number of other factors, it is pretty well meaningless. It is also possible to 'learn' how to do IQ tests by performing them repeatedly. Then there are dumbasses like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFCfranco Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 what about Archimedes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 what about Archimedes? Who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozza Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Archiegemmill.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFCfranco Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Who? google him, ancient greek guy proper smart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Who? He explained the principle of the lever (amongst other things) - also revolutionised irrigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 what about Archimedes? I think he invented a screw pump to lift water and ran down the street with no clothes on shouting 'eurika' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Ram Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I would suggest Leonardo da Vinci. Great painter and also sculptor, writer, botanist and inventor. He designed helicopters, tanks, calculators, solar energy panels and double hull ships, hundreds of years before they were manufactured. He was too far ahead of his time for most of his concepts to become reality. There's no need to bring the chap's private life into it, 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> he probably was ahead of his time and one of the greatest pioneers but I'd like to give Brunel a drop of recognition for his contribution, he was a good lad old Brunel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 There's no need to bring the chap's private life into it, 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> he probably was ahead of his time and one of the greatest pioneers but I'd like to give Brunel a drop of recognition for his contribution, he was a good lad old Brunel. Who Frank Brunel 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFCfranco Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 there's also people like Aristotle, isaac newton, einstein, stephen hawking. galileo and darwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 there's also people like Aristotle, isaac newton, einstein, stephen hawking. galileo and darwin. Ok, make an argument for one of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I've got to be up there surely?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCFCfranco Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Ok, make an argument for one of these. i'm not saying these people are smarter than da Vinci, just listing some incredibly smart people that changed the world like him. its impossible to say who's the smartest ever because everyone contributes in different areas, for example einstein probably knnows more about physics than Darwin, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gritstone Ram Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 there's also people like Aristotle, isaac newton, einstein, stephen hawking. galileo and darwin. My first thought was steve hawkings. He has had a tough time and **** knows how he gets that computer to talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwram1973 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I would suggest Leonardo da Vinci. Great painter and also sculptor, writer, botanist and inventor. He designed helicopters, tanks, calculators, solar energy panels and double hull ships, hundreds of years before they were manufactured. He was too far ahead of his time for most of his concepts to become reality. He drew pictures of helicopters not designed them, i can draw a picture of something and in 500 years time if it's invented will i be in the same class as da vinci? Not that i'd be around to be smug about it. I would say Copernicus, Galileo Galilei & newton for discovering the earth was not the center of the universe and that we rotate around the sun. Also the discovery and explanation to the world of gravity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Me. /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyBilly Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 His remains are lying in Derby Cathedral and he had a school named after him in Breadsall Hilltop, arguably the most Intelligent man to have lived with so little recognition in the wider world- Henry Cavendish. Problem was he was so shy (probably severely autistic) that he didn't publish the vast majority of his papers and others after his death have since taken credit and took his glory. He was credited for the discovery of Hydrogen though and weighed the Earth to an accuracy even modern day instruments would struggle with. I don't think there was a pool he didn't dip his toe into. Richter's law of reciprocal proportions, Ohm's law, Coulomb's law, Charles's law of gases, Dalton's law of partial pressures, essentially mapped out a blueprint for the laws of thermodynamics - all of which discovered after his death by a biographer going through his unpublished papers- very sad. Certainly up there IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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