Like his contemporary at Cambridge , Isaac Newton , Oughtred taught his ideas privately to his students . Also like Newton , he became involved in a vitriolic controversy over priority , with his one-time student Richard Delamain and the prior claims of Wingate .
Like his contemporary at Cambridge , Isaac Newton , Oughtred taught his ideas privately to his students , but delayed in publishing them , and like Newton , he became involved in a vitriolic controversy over priority , with his one-time student Richard Delamain and the prior claims of Wingate .