This article lost me after just the first couple of paragraphs. If Leibniz is, as quoted in the text, `recognized for first formally proposing` the binary system - then what relevance does it have that someone had the idea earlier (and thought it was useless)? He is not recognized for having had the idea first, he is recognized for seeing an application of it and formally proposing and specifying it.
Roentgen wasn't the first to observe x-rays either, he was the first to perform extensive studies and publications on them.
Roentgen wasn't the first to observe x-rays either, he was the first to perform extensive studies and publications on them.