During the Great Plague of 1665, Isaac Newton was forced into isolation when cities and institutions, including the University of Cambridge, shut down. He returned to his family home at Woolsthorpe Manor and spent a year working in solitude. In that time, he began formulating his theories on calculus, made breakthroughs in optics, and laid the groundwork for his law of universal gravitation. Historians call this period his annus mirabilis, the year of wonders that forever changed our understandi