In the 1600s scientists from history were discovering a lot of things about science! It was an exciting time to be a scientist from history!
But they were also concerned about people stealing their ideas!
So while still working out the particulars, they'd publish the basics of their ideas IN SECRET CODE. Robert Hooke's published his law of elasticity as "ceiiinosssttuv". And Newton wrote a letter to his chum Leibniz where he was all "6accdae13eff7i2l9ntr8o". It was all a bit like... leeching me from history??
And unbeknownst to him, Leibniz was working on inventing science!
Yep!
So when Leibniz announced she was writing a law of elasticity that explained how our breath works, Newton wrote back to Leibniz in a letter and said he'd love to know how her law worked.
She kinda ignored him and in a letter to his chum Leibniz said she'd invented calculus and the laws of physics were all her own.
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