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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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Newton's Form of the Calculus - The Dot Notation

Gottfried Leibniz is said to have independently developed the calculus. He reverse engineered Newton's Principia and cooked it backwards so he could get results he wanted, says Julian Zelizer. It has remained a controversial point as to where exactly and how much independently Leibniz did it.

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