[soundsop]

I haven't finished reading yet, but for what it's worth, I'm having trouble parsing this sentence:

Few were sufficiently correct that people have forgotten who discovered what they discovered.

[forgotmylastone]

I think he meant something along the lines of "Few were sufficiently correct that they were remembered for their discovery."

[pg]

No, I meant that when you learn about e.g. the chemical elements, you don't also learn who discovered each of them. It's accepted knowledge; you're taught it as facts.

In philosophy, most of the exam questions have someone's name in them. E.g. "explain x's concept of y."

[ced]

I also had problems with the sentence, probably because it doesn't ring especially true. I can name the discoverer of most of what I know about physics, right from the names: Newtonian physics, Bohr's model, the Schrodinger equation, Euclidian geometry, Gaussian curves... E=Mc2...

[euccastro]

FWIW, I too got stuck at that sentence like nowhere else in the text; it took me some tries to macro-expand. Maybe your proofreaders got past it without blinking because they are more acquainted with that point?

(Although Newtonian physics and Euclidean geometry are not really counterexamples.)

[forgotmylastone]

Einsteinium? (yes, I'm away Einstein didn't discover that =P)