Gymnosophists etc.

[wagers at computek.net]

Lars Martin Fosse writes on 5/6/96:

> Having said this, we are still far away from a formula that would enable us
> to deal with the problem of heritage as against borrowing as against
> spontaneous development of the same idea in two different places (the
> Newton - Leibnitz effect: Both discovered infinitesimal calculation [hope
> this is the right word] at about the same time without influencing each
> other).

I have always understood them to have been in communication.



Will wagers at computek.net
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