INTERESTING FACTS Most of his lasting achievements were accomplished in a sprint of discoveries over two years, from. In spite of the fact that Newton studied and taught at Trinity College in Cambridge for. After the publishing of the Principia, although many were astonished by the work, few could comprehend it. Albert Einstein would share this honor when he published the Theory of Relativity 250 years later. Newton later accused Gottfried of stealing the idea, and brought the matter to inquiry before The Royal Society of London. The Society concluded that Gottfried had "pretended" to have invent calculus "to rival and.