8 Fascinating Historical Facts about Isolation and Quarantine

Newton also laid the foundations for calculus

During the 18 months that Newton was isolated in Cambridge, he did some serious studying, leading to several revolutionary discoveries.

Though his papers were not published until well after the bubonic plague epidemic that led him to seek refuge in Cambridge, Newton also wrote some of his papers on the rules of “fluxions,” known today as calculus.

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