Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys, or what did YOU do in isolation?

A fabulous post by Joy Lennick​ that parallels the plague years from 1665 and how those of the time maintained social distancing or mingled regardless with some positive results such as Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton.. well worth heading over for a read..

It is fortunately not often that millions of people on our planet find themselves in such a similar, dire situation, except in wars and epidemics, and so many, brave individuals have, in this present, horrific coronavirus situation, paid the ultimate price for their unselfishness in caring for the sick and dying. We should feel eternally grateful and humbled. I am.

Harking back to the truly dreadful plague of 1665: it was said that a five-year-old boy named John Morley was found dead at his home in Cambridge with black spots on his chest in July 1665 and became the town’s first bubonic plague victim. Townspeople started to isolate, and a young scholar at Trinity College named Isaac Newton fled to his home farm in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire to study. In the two years he was there, he studied calculus, created the science of motion and unravelled gravity, or so it was said. (Husband reckons he went scrumping, filled his pockets with apples and they were so heavy, his trousers fell down, but wouldn’t dream of putting forward such a theory… ).

 

 

Do please head over to enjoy the rest of the post.. and thanks Joy for sharing.

 

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