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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
Nobody forced Platon, Herodot, Aristotle, Newton and many great thinkers of the world to write - for our own good.
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Newton deliberately declined to write for a mass audience:
Philosophić Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Albert Einstein, by contrast, wrote for both specialist audiences and for a general readership. Examples of the latter:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ory-of-gravit/
https://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Sp...=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Without copyright, specialists would still write articles in an attempt to convince other specialists that they should get tenure, and just for the joy of advancing science. And some would blog. But there wouldn't be the editorial teams required to produce
first rate popular science.