At the risk of sounding facetious - isn't the whole Leibniz versus Newton thing akin to VHS vs Betamax? Considering Leibniz was perhaps superior and certainly p

At the risk of sounding facetious - isn't the whole Leibniz versus Newton thing akin to VHS vs Betamax? Considering Leibniz was perhaps superior and certainly published first, I believe Newton's principia was a more complete body of work, more widely read and as a result more widely disseminated. I read somewhere also that Leibniz came with a good bit of (potentially heretical) baggage that might have made it more difficult for his work to find mainstream acceptance. He tried to meet up with John Locke on a couple of occasions to discus his monadic theory of mind but Locke was always "unavailable". Also, worthy of consideration in the wider context of OP article is that both versions of calculus emerged from pretty much the same European cultural milieux - there was much exchange between English and German academia and both came up with it similarly because it was "what was happening at the time".