Galileo's Lessons for Living and Working Through a Plague
30.04.20 | Cuca Margoux
An outbreak in Italy in the 1630s forced him to find new ways of doing his research and connecting with family.
The novel coronavirus has upended our world over the past few months, forcing people to learn how to work in entirely new ways. For scientists in particular, Isaac Newton has repeatedly been held up as a model of epidemic-induced productivity, since he spent his 1666 “year of miracles” avoiding the plague in the English countryside and developing his ideas on gravity, optics and calculus.
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