Yes, Newton actually wanted to include "classical scholia" in the Principia showing that he was just recovering the occult knowledge of the ancients: http://ads

Yes, Newton actually wanted to include "classical scholia" in the Principia showing that he was just recovering the occult knowledge of the ancients: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1984HisSc..22....1C http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1984HisSc..22....1C I don't know why he left them out -- I guess he knew it'd be controversial.