I would say Newton provided a similarly important discontinuous leap in our understanding of nature. I want to be careful though. As some sibling comments ment

I would say Newton provided a similarly important discontinuous leap in our understanding of nature. I want to be careful though. As some sibling comments mention, these discoveries of these great people were indeed "in the air" of their time. They will have happened. But it would have taken many more great scientists and more time. For instance, I believe there are incredibly deep insights today derived from the mixture of quantum mechanics and information science. More deep insights are imminent and inevitable. But there is hardly one towering figure to do them all in one sweeping motion the way Einstein or Newton or Euclid did (to name a few easy examples).