[Geezer (OP)]

A highly speculative question I admit, but if Newton had access to SuperCalc, or one of it's derivatives (hehe), like Excel, would he even have bothered to develop The Calculus?

[lightarrow]

He woudn't have written anything of mathematics or physics: he would have passed all his life trying to understand the Supercalc's functioning  []

[imatfaal]

I am glad that Sir Isaac spent his time developing strange mathematical procedures and self-experimenting; if he had been a child of the 1970-80 his great intellect would have been devoted to separating me from my money in new and inventive ways. 

[yor_on]

Don't you think he would have found it he** on wheels to find his place inside physics, considering his interest in the slightly 'unusual'

Alchemy I mean.

Wouldn't it been sweet if it actually had worked out. Wonder how society would look then? And physics All dressed in black robes mumbling incantation over different colored powders, turning levers and directing the rays of the sun. Yep, I think it would have been interesting, although no weirder than what we have as it is