We are told these brilliant men are lone genius, quietly solving mysteries of creation.

I've always assumed they are the tools of the real shadow government on this planet. We are *allowed* to know about Newtonian physics, and NOT something else. It is WRONG, but it works just enough to fuck with germs of matter on this plane to make progress, i.e. enslavement. The differential calculus, it must have been needed, but it is a tiny ray of transcendental technology that is known but hidden. If Newton was part of a mystery school, my guess would be an inner Pythagorean order.