From this point the work was carried on by Philistus's fellow countryman Athanas.
Not for the first time in recent events he will be playing fellow countryman James Willstrop in a crucial match.
In the second-string department, highly-rated Swede Sebastian Alden fills one position, with the other taken by fellow countryman Davidsson.
Excepting in the correspondence with Flamsteed we hear nothing more of the preparation of the Principia until the 21st of April 1686, when Halley read to the Royal Society his Discourse concerning Gravity and its Properties, in which he states " that his worthy countryman Mr Isaac Newton has an incomparable treatise of motion almost ready for the press," and that the law of the inverse square " is the principle on which Mr Newton has made out all the phenomena of the celestial motions so easily and naturally, that its truth is past dispute."
Jak Upland (John Countryman) took the place of Piers Ploughman, and upbraided the clergy, and especially the friars, for their wealth and luxury.