Timeline for First science fiction story to refer to a real and living (at the time) scientist?
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| 13 hours ago | vote | accept | releseabe | ||
| 23 hours ago | comment | added | FreeMan | @terdon were there science fiction stories being written in ancient Greece? I dunno, but I'd bet not... | |
| Feb 16, 2023 at 22:00 | comment | added | user134664 | @terdon Did Aristotle or Pythagoras have anything really equivalent to the scientific method? | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 15:06 | comment | added | workerjoe | Somebody ought to go check Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and see if any scientists are name-dropped there. | |
| Feb 14, 2023 at 6:48 | answer | added | Arcanist Lupus | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 13, 2023 at 21:48 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Can you pare that down to something useful; at least to to something intelligible? | |
| Feb 13, 2023 at 16:22 | answer | added | polfosol ఠ_ఠ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 13, 2023 at 13:07 | comment | added | releseabe | @terdon don't get me started on that bigmouth aristotle. but a story written in 300 bce mentioning him or anyone else who was even vaguely a scientist wd be amazing. i bet there aint any. | |
| Feb 13, 2023 at 12:01 | comment | added | terdon | Are you saying that someone like Aristotle or Pythagoras isn't a scientist because the term hadn't been invented yet? | |
| Feb 13, 2023 at 11:36 | answer | added | Radovan Garabík | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 13, 2023 at 7:07 | answer | added | user14111 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 13, 2023 at 6:17 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 14 | |
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| Feb 12, 2023 at 19:28 | answer | added | Ethan | timeline score: 18 | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 18:56 | comment | added | Lexible | Darwin? Lord Kelvin? | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 18:32 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ |
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| Feb 12, 2023 at 18:31 | answer | added | Laurel | timeline score: 41 | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 18:20 | comment | added | releseabe | @Laurel: That would be okay. But think how many stories mention Newton, etc. So the closer to the scientist being alive the better. | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 18:18 | comment | added | Laurel | Does it count if the story was written a few years after the scientist's death? | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 18:06 | comment | added | releseabe | @alexg I think name dropping is fine. I do not expect many older stories to include a living person in general, science fiction or not. I do recall a time travel story where Boltzmann is a character although not an active character -- the main chars go to see him lecture iirc. | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 17:57 | comment | added | alexg | Do you want someone who appears in the narrative, or is namedropping enough? I think Verne mentions real scientists but doesn't have them as characters. | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 17:49 | history | asked | releseabe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |