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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 modern science could be created. Or at least, that is the inspirational story that is being touted as a model.
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Newton's brilliance
The idea that the plague woke the brilliance in Newton is wrong and misleading as a measure of how well we apply ourselves during our own plague spring.
Isaac Newton had begun to think about the most pressing questions in science in 1664, a year before the plague broke out. Similar...
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Doing the work was what mattered to Isaac Newton. He kept at it before the plague, during, and after his return to college. He wrote that during the plague year, he had been in the prime of his age for invention and minded Mathematics and Philosophy more than at any time since.
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The idea that the plague woke the brilliance in Newton is wrong and misleading as a measure of how well we apply ourselves during our own plague spring.
Isaac Newton had begun to think about the most pressing questions in science in 1664, a year before the plague broke out. Similar...
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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, writin...
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