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Without his professors to guide him, Newton apparently thrived. The year-plus he spent away was later referred to as his Annus Mirabilis, the year of wonders. First, he continued work on mathematical problems he had begun at Cambridge. The papers he wrote on this became early calculus. Next, he acquired a few prisms and experimented with them in his bedroom, even going so far as to bore a hole in his shutter so only a small beam of light could come through. From this sprung his theories on optics and right outside his window at Woolsthorpe, there was an apple tree That Apple tree. The story of how Newton sat under the tree was bonked on the head by an apple and suddenly understood the theories of gravity and motion is largely apocryphal. But according to his assistant, John Conduit, there's an element of truth in it.

2022-12-16

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Randy Roberts