ABSTRACT
Twenty-fi ve years earlier, in the years 1665-1666 and far from Basel , the 23-year-old scientist Isaac Newton was a refugee from Cambridge University on his family’s farm in central England, far from the highly contagious disease called the plague, which had forced the closing of the university until the danger passed. Newton spent those 18 months thinking and discovering and experimenting, in what has since been called his Anno Mirabilis [Miraculous Year]— the months when he made more brilliant discoveries in science than perhaps any other single person has ever done in so short a time. His only restrictions were the limits imposed by his own imagination and curiosity-and these were amazingly vast and deep.
