- Isaac Newton was in his early 20s when the Great Plague of London hit. He wasn’t a “Sir” yet, didn’t have that big formal wig. He was just another college student at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He continued to work on mathematical problems he had begun at Cambridge; the papers he wrote on this became early calculus.
He acquired a few prisms and experimented with them in his bedroom, even going so far as to bore a hole in his shutters so only a small beam could come through. From this sprung his theories on optics.
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See the full article also a few biographies of Sir Isaac i've read and found great reads. Here’s links to the books: