> Contrast this situation to the invention of calculus which was simultaneously created by Newton and Leibniz. There were plenty of precursors to calculus, com

> Contrast this situation to the invention of calculus which was simultaneously created by Newton and Leibniz. There were plenty of precursors to calculus, coming from the likes of Descartes, Fermat and Pascal. For example: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/The_rise_of_calculus.html http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/The_rise_of_c...