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by tintor 28 days ago
You can replace Newton with Leibniz.
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No? This is only true if you assume that Newton’s only notable achievement was the creation of calculus. Newton did far more for physics and classical mechanics than Leibniz. Did Leibniz also discover the universal law of gravitation? Did he match Newton’s prism experiments in some way? In what sense can Newton be replaced by Leibniz?
Newton did a lot more than just calculus, you know.