What else should he have done? People of course isolate during a pandemic and this isolation made some people very productive. We've seen it during the covid pandemic as well.
Wish we'd do this to academics more often. Give them enough to live on, no responsibilities, and beat anyone who tries to socialize with them with a big stick.
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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The exact moment when Isaac Newton invented the LGBTQ+
invented? so LGBTQ+ just didn't exist before Isaac Newton. that sounds prety homophophic to me.
what would they use as their flag? :/
Newton's work in optics → refraction and better lenses → the microscope →germ theory →vaccines.
Well, he couldn't have known that, but fascinating that he was inadvertently helping to solve disease. Just a few centuries ahead of being useful.
This is what you can expect from a mathematician. Always ahead of the curve.
And calculating the area beneath it.
And the slope within it
this seems pretty gay.
Damn, you beat me to it
Damn, should beat meat to it.
🤨so what are you beating meat to
Isaac Newton discovers Led Zeppelin circa 1666
He was into Pink Floyd before they were cool (or were born).
Back then they were called Sepia Floyd
What else should he have done? People of course isolate during a pandemic and this isolation made some people very productive. We've seen it during the covid pandemic as well.
Wish we'd do this to academics more often. Give them enough to live on, no responsibilities, and beat anyone who tries to socialize with them with a big stick.
IMO, we need that outside of academia too.
As if you didn't try new hobbies during lockdown!
Looks like a typical pandemic project to me.
We made sourdough. Newton defined the foundations of math and science.
First read as Sourdough Newton. Thought maybe that was like a fig newton you made during lockdown.
Or maybe sounds like a classic rock cover band singer who would have opened for Meatloaf in the 1980s.
So prisms anc color theory were lockdown discoveries. Gotcha
Wrong time periodes
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.
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.
Were all the anti-vaxxers also fire-deniers?
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.
He should have just used a TI-86.
Thomas Müntzer fanboy.
Gay is stored in the prism.
They come out due to UV light. It is know as the photoeclectic effect.