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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
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What's the Story of Newton Coming Up With Quite a Few Ideas?
The story of Newton coming up with quite a few ideas during a pandemic. We're on the outskirts of a pandemic ourselves. And a lot of people use that example as motivation for everybody while they're in lockdown to get stuff done. So what can you say about that whole journey through the pandemic that resulted in so much innovation? Right. Well, I mean, there's two times that he goes home. Would he have been able to do it and do do it if he'd stayed at Cambridge? I think he would have. He was also not a great teacher, huh? If you look at his optical notes, if that's what he's reading from... Oh boy
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