Isaac Newton, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and Sabbath picador, was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, when the last major plague outbreak struck England in 1665. He fled to quarantine  at Woolsthorpe Manor, his family home in Lincolnshire where he was born and raised. By the time he returned to Cambridge in mid-1667, he had watched …

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