[h2odragon]

What miracles and wonders have been worked out by lone wolves, and never recognized by their survivors?

What miracles of computation have been bought and buried by bigger companies who didn't care to compete with smaller fry?

Ultimately it's not relevant until it's realized. Newton may have been 500 years late to the party; but we'll never know and it doesn't matter what others knew the things he explained before him.