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, Leibn

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. Mark Steele covers him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CQenuI_zsw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CQenuI_zsw (its the radio version)