Key component of calculus identified two centuries before Newton
1702 Portrait of Newton by Godfrey Kneller
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August 16, 2007 New research suggests that a key aspect of the calculus, commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz in the late 1600s, may in fact have been discovered more than two centuries earlier by scholars at the Kerala School in southwest India.
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