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Isaac Newton invented calculus while in quarantine during the Great Plague.

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During the plague years 1665–1666, Newton worked in isolation away from Cambridge and developed ideas that became calculus, along with major insights in optics and motion. The period is often called his “annus mirabilis” (miracle years) because of the concentration of breakthroughs.

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