Newton's apple

Author: (German) Bilko, translated by Zhang Shisheng and Gu Mu
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The content of this book: On a mild and tranquil day in late summer of 1666, a fireplace was built on the wall of a cottage, and the garden behind it was filled with comfortable sunlight. A young man sat on a bench under the shade of a tree. His golden hair was slightly curly, hanging on his shoulders, gently swaying in the warm breeze. He was forced to stay here; he originally lived at Trinity College, Cambridge, but a year earlier, the plague in London had taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, forcing Trinity College to close. Misfortune followed in quick succession, as a fire reduced three-quarters of the city to ruins. Samuel Pepys, a citizen of England, wrote in his diary on September 7, 1666: "The entire city was burned down. From St. Paul's Churchyard, it was a sight too terrible to behold; all the roofs had collapsed."