• Dagobah@lemmy.world
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    I thought so too so I checked. The plague came in many waves (famously the black death was in the 1300s which may be why we were confused) but there was a major plague outbreak in 1665-1666 which is when Newton was doing his work on optics.

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      Yep we had Optics, the plague and the great fire of London in one golden year.

      Interesting fact that the fire probably helped curtail the spread of the plague and led to more sanitary conditions in London in general.

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      If I’m not mistaken, he also calculated pi by hand (to several decimal places) during lockdown. So it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows for ol’ Isaac.