At the risk of sounding facetious - isn&#x27;t the whole Leibniz versus Newton thing akin to VHS vs Betamax? Considering Leibniz was perhaps superior and certainly published first, I believe Newton&#x27;s <i>principia</i> 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 &quot;unavailable&quot;.<p>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 &quot;what was happening at the time&quot;.