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Originally Posted by Ken G
Probably not! If one chooses to use the "accelerated advancement" metric to gauge the importance of Kant's contribution to science, chances are it strongly favors those who contributed to technology over those who contributed to ideas. And if one uses the "how many people were rescued from an incorrect picture" metric, one would need to quantify the harm in having an incorrect picture!
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If you look here
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble in Español you will read under Obra (work):
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Originally Posted by about Kant and Hubble
Remarcablemente la idea de que las nebulosas espirales observadas por Hubble fueran objetos extragalácticos había sido sugerida en otros términos mucho antes por Immanuel Kant en 1755 acuñando el término de Universos isla.
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I have not checked the English version, but the fact that when you look up Hubble, and a link is provided for I. Kant as a precurser to Hubble's idea (as stated above) says it all.
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