{"id":243736,"date":"2026-09-07T17:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/isaac-newtons-remarkable-year-plagiarism-accusations-that-followed"},"modified":"2026-09-07T17:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:08:59","slug":"isaac-newtons-remarkable-year-plagiarism-accusations-that-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/isaac-newtons-remarkable-year-plagiarism-accusations-that-followed","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Newton\u2019s remarkable year plagiarism accusations that followed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/isaac-newtons-remarkable-year-plagiarism-accusations-that-followed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. Newton\u2019s \u201cmiracle year\u201d was not quite a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Newton\u2019s relationships with figures such as Robert Hooke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others demonstrate how difficult it can be to determine who \u201cdiscovered\u201d an idea first.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A deep dive into Newton\u2019s major work, <i>Principia Mathematica<\/i>, reveals his hate of hypotheses and a habit of courting controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Newton\u2019s \u201cmiracle year\u201d was not quite a miracle. Newton\u2019s relationships with figures such as Robert Hooke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others demonstrate how difficult it can be to determine who \u201cdiscovered\u201d an idea first. A deep dive into Newton\u2019s major work, Principia Mathematica, reveals his hate of hypotheses and a habit of courting controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}