Two years alone at his mother's farm, hiding from plague, produced calculus, the theory of color, an…
Two years alone at his mother's farm, hiding from plague, produced calculus, the theory of color, and the law that holds the solar system together — and he told almost nobody for two decades. He then spent longer on secret alchemy and unpublished Bible chronology than he ever spent on physics, hidden because occult practice could end a career or worse. He ran the Royal Mint's fraud investigations personally and sent counterfeiters to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. He never married. By his own account, he died a virgin. https://begump.com/research/newton/
