How to understand "anticipated "
In "he poem, as rehabilitated by the enterprising Poggio, went on to inspire Shakespeare, Montaigne, Newton, even anticipated Darwin, Einstein, Heisenberg – all of it with an audacious account of a universe not governed by Fate or by the gods, but characterised by the motion of infinitesimal particles, atoms, ‘the seeds of things’", how to understand " anticipated"? and why Newton has been divided with the following scientists? doesn't he anticipated ? Thank you!

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Poggio inspired Shakespeare, Montaigne and Newton. His thinking can be 'seen' their work. He only 'anticipated' Einstein. His thinking hints at Einstein's thinking centuries later. There is no proof that Einstein used Poggio's thinking, but an it's an attempt to say that Poggio had similar thoughts to Einstein only a long time before.

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Anticipate here means "to precede", "to come before", or "to foreshadow".  It is different from the usage of anticipate that means "to expect".

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