Timeline for Which Sci-Fi work introduced the idea of "Mad Scientists as villains"?
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| Aug 27, 2015 at 0:00 | history | edited | zwol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 4, 2015 at 22:28 | history | edited | zwol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 4, 2015 at 21:15 | comment | added | zwol | The "real" in "real scientists in Europe" is meant to be in contrast with "fictional", not "fake". What I was trying to say was that fictional scientists necessarily postdate historical figures who thought of themselves as scientists. There were certainly people prior to Roger Bacon doing things we would now consider to be science, but because they didn't construe it that way, the fiction inspired by them is gonna be different. | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 20:06 | comment | added | goldilocks | ...Either way, we would be going back many centuries and it seems more than a little ridiculous to try and claim that the Faust story is not a very obvious progenitor of modern western sci-fi. | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 20:04 | comment | added | goldilocks | @MichaelEdenfield I dunno how contentious a topic it is here, but wikipedia seems to divide this into two camps, one stricter than the other. IMO the less strict camp seems more feasible than the other since the more strict camp will probably bite its own foot off in the mouth and reduce the genre to arguments about whether real science begins with some formal statement about method or whether such reflects a methodology which predates the formal statement... | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 23:44 | comment | added | KutuluMike | Another good catch; though this answer means we have to start asking what exactly qualifies as a "scientists", and as "science fiction" :) | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 21:35 | history | answered | zwol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |