The phrase "anticipated the idea of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone predicting or foreseeing a concept or notion before it became widely recognized or accepted.
Example: "The scientist anticipated the idea of climate change long before it became a global concern."
Alternatives: "foreseen the concept of" or "predicted the notion of".
10 It should be noted that Bloom's theory of mastery learning anticipates the idea of deep learner models by considering two principal student characteristics: cognitive entry behaviors and affective entry characteristics.
Physics, which deals with bodies and their movement, can explain no more than motion (its result is, in fact, a Prime Mover) and, unable to answer the fundamental ontological question about the origin of the world's being, it simply anticipates the idea of the Principle that metaphysics demonstrates (Ilāhiyyāt, I, 1, 6, 17 7, 6).
The work somewhat anticipates the ideas of the great thinkers of the century following his death by its emphasis on induction as a method of psychological and philosophical discovery.
One listing of events in New York described it as "frankly a girl show, but pepped up into something by the Surrealist madness of Salvador Dalí." Anticipating the ideas of some modern installation artists, Dalí incorporated not just performance but also sound into his pavilion.
This, an early formulation of the hypothetico-deductive method of science, anticipates the ideas of Popper by more than two decades, though expressed less forcefully.
As anticipated, the idea was magnificent.
Some of Koestler's late work is impressive: "The Sleepwalkers" is an account of the pioneers of modern astronomy that Thomas Kuhn credited with having anticipated the ideas in his classic, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
Such a theory is only to be found in Philo of Alexandria, whose reflections on the allegorical meaning of the Old Testament anticipate the idea that the literal meaning of a text may conceal a deeper non-literal meaning that may only be uncovered through systematic interpretatory work.
The one I didn't anticipate was the idea of "crowd sourcing".
