One should always be suspicious of achievements in history books!
Newton could be an unmitigated shit. He has feuds with lots of people, including Hooke, Leibniz & Flamsteed. Not to mention that he rounded up the poor and convicted them of counterfeiting for possession of coins, rather than making them.
he also had a heretical secret life, properly into alchemy and other (for the time) wildly fantastical beliefs. Ones I suspect, but cant prove, he would have exploited should they have belonged to his rivals.
Newton could be an unmitigated shit. He has feuds with lots of people, including Hooke, Leibniz & Flamsteed. Not to mention that he rounded up the poor and convicted them of counterfeiting for possession of coins, rather than making them.
he also had a heretical secret life, properly into alchemy and other (for the time) wildly fantastical beliefs. Ones I suspect, but cant prove, he would have exploited should they have belonged to his rivals.
Mark Steele covers him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CQenuI_zsw (its the radio version)