"In 1708, Keil... renewed the same accusation. ...Keil returned to the charge; and in 1711, in a letter to sir , secretary to the Royal Society, he was not contented with saying, that Newton was the first inventor; but plainly intimated, that Leibnitz, after having taken his method from Newton's writings, had appropriated it to himself, merely employing a different notation; which was charging him in other words with plagiarism. Leibnitz, indignant at such an accusation, complained loudly to the Royal Society; and openly required it to suppress the clamours of an inconsiderate man, who attacked his fame and his honour. The Royal Society appointed a committee, to examine all the writings that related to this question, and in 1712 it published these writings, with the report of the committee, under the following title: Commercium epistolicum de Analysi promota. Without being absolutely affirmative, the conclusion of the report is, that Keil had not calumniated Leibnitz. The work was dispersed over all Europe with profusion. Newton was at that time president of the Royal Society, where he enjoyed the highest respect and most ample power..."