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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marretics@discuss.tchncs.de · 67 pts · 20d
The exact moment when Isaac Newton invented the LGBTQ+
gooballer@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 17d
invented? so LGBTQ+ just didn't exist before Isaac Newton. that sounds prety homophophic to me.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 11d
what would they use as their flag? :/
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 20d
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.
Artisian@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 20d
This is what you can expect from a mathematician. Always ahead of the curve.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20d
And calculating the area beneath it.
gooballer@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 17d
And the slope within it
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 20d
this seems pretty gay.
marretics@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 20d
Damn, you beat me to it
far_university1990@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 20d
Damn, should beat meat to it.
gooballer@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 17d
🤨so what are you beating meat to
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 20d
Isaac Newton discovers Led Zeppelin circa 1666
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 17 pts · 20d
He was into Pink Floyd before they were cool (or were born).
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 20d
Back then they were called Sepia Floyd
Airfried@piefed.social · 24 pts · 20d
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.
Artisian@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 20d
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.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 20d
IMO, we need that outside of academia too.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 23 pts · 20d
As if you didn't try new hobbies during lockdown!
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 20d
Looks like a typical pandemic project to me.
ech@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 20d
We made sourdough. Newton defined the foundations of math and science.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 20d
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.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 20d
So prisms anc color theory were lockdown discoveries. Gotcha
endlessnebulae@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 20d
glitzer_gadze@feddit.org · 4 pts · 20d
Wrong time periodes
Dagobah@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 20d
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.
adam_y@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 20d
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.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 20d
Were all the anti-vaxxers also fire-deniers?
HeavenlySpoon@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 20d
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.
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 17d
He should have just used a TI-86.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 20d
Thomas Müntzer fanboy.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
Gay is stored in the prism.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 20d
They come out due to UV light. It is know as the photoeclectic effect.