[willis936]

Sir Isaac Newton, President of the Royal Society, an outsider? The same guy who published laws of motion and helped develop calculus, yet did not publish any of his religious or alchemic studies is a kook? I'm not sure what point you're making here.

[adolph]

And notably also didn't publish his work on calculus until after Leibnitz, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu...