Do we honour Newton rather than Mei simply because the west hung on to a 2000-year lead geography gave it at the end of the Ice Age?
我们推崇牛顿而不是梅文鼎，仅仅是因为西方的地域关系比东方结束冰河世纪早了2000多年？
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Perhaps the real lesson of history is that by the time the east overtakes the west, it will no longer matter much that Newton, and not Mei, was the father of classical physics.