Imagine trying to explain the word "Stalingrad" to a Kalahari bushman. Tremendously daunting: it's long, long story. Why would he listen?
Or attempting to impede him in his pursuit of those achievements -- as happened with the unfortunate (and legitimately aggrieved) Flamsteed.
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Newton was jealous of his priority; he was vain and prideful, too. He was not content to refute his rivals, but needed to humiliate them.
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His principal passion, though, was for investigation. His work consumed orders of magnitude more of his time than his polemical activities.
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