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Isaac Newton
In 1665, during one of the last major outbreaks of the bubonic plague in England, classes at Cambridge University were canceled, and Newton had to retreat to his family estate.
With zero structure, the young mathematician produced some of his best work during his year in quarantine, writing papers that would become early calculus and developing his theories on optics while playing with prisms in his bedroom. The theory of gravity also germinated during this time.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an actor and shareholder with The King's Men theater troupe when the bubonic plague forced London theaters to close.
The theater industry was out of action for much of 1606. After suddenly finding himself without a steady job and lots of free time, Shakespeare wrot...
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Giovanni Boccaccio
When the bubonic plague hit Florence in 1348, writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio fled the city and stayed in the Tuscan countryside.
During this period, he wrote The Decameron, a collection of novellas framed as stories a group of friends tells each other while quarantined.
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Using free time
Since the WHO declared the new virus a pandemic and officials have urged people to stay home as much as possible, many Americans have suddenly found themselves with more free time and limited ways to spend it.
If you want to use this time to be productive, you have many historical role mod...
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Edvard Munch
Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch contracted the Spanish Flu at the beginning of 1919.
As soon as he felt physically capable, he gathered his painting supplies and began capturing his physical state.
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Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe was an Elizabethan playwright who gained fame around the same time as William Shakespeare.
When the bubonic plague hit London in 1592, Nashe fled to the English countryside to avoid infection. During this time he wrote Summers' Last Will and Testament, a play that reflects hi...
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Isaac Newton's Quarantine
During the bubonic plague in 1665, Newton was among the students forced to return home from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Away from university life, curriculum constraints, and professors to guide him, Newton seemed to thrive. At home, he built bookshelves and created a small office for hims...
Isaac Newton's productivity
In 1665 Isaac Newton, a young scholar of Trinity College, fled from the Bubonic plague to his home, about sixty miles from the university. While in solitude, he would invent calculus, create the science of motion, unravel gravity, an more.
The plague created the conditions in which mod...
Finding Meaning
Sir Isaac Newton, was the famous English mathematician and physicist whose profound works on gravity, mechanics, optics and calculus, among other subjects have greatly shaped science in the coming centuries.
His contributions have altered and reshaped everything that Science had to offer.
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