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[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

why didn't he just invent antibiotics instead, was he stupid?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

So prisms anc color theory were lockdown discoveries. Gotcha

[-] Airfried@piefed.social 9 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] marretics@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 7 hours ago

The exact moment when Isaac Newton invented the LGBTQ+

[-] JusticeForPorygon 13 points 5 hours ago

Isaac Newton discovers Led Zeppelin circa 1666

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 10 points 5 hours ago

He was into Pink Floyd before they were cool (or were born).

[-] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 21 points 7 hours ago
[-] marretics@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 hours ago
[-] far_university1990@reddthat.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Damn, should beat meat to it.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 hours ago

We made sourdough. Newton defined the foundations of math and science.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago

Thomas Müntzer fanboy.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Gay is stored in the prism.

[-] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

They come out due to UV light. It is know as the photoeclectic effect.

[-] glitzer_gadze@feddit.org 4 points 6 hours ago
[-] Dagobah@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago

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 9 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] HeavenlySpoon@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 hours ago

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.

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