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If you could send a book back in time for a person to read, what book would it be and who would be the recipient? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One of my college text books on Electromagnetism with the heavy calculus and derivations of Maxwell's Equations to either Leonhard Euler or Isaac Newton, one of the extremely few people in the 17th century that would be able to understand the math and use the math to actually generate electricity.