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All right, it's time to strap into the time machine as we set off towards the next

stop on my love letter to the world. Recorder, microphone, action.

The Bibonic plague hits Europe, fear and panic spread. Houses in London have their doors

sealed shut. Many are dobed with prayers like Lord have mercy.

The University of Cambridge closes its doors and Isaac Newton flees towards his childhood home in Lincolnshire.

For him that time of lockdown was an opportunity to think

more deeply than he ever had before.

He thought about light and refraction. He conjured into being the laws of motion.

He watched an orchard and an apple tree and came up with gravity.

And all of it was eventually published in a book like no other,

the greatest work of science ever written.

I know.

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