Today, I visited Isaac Newton’s birthplace at Woolsthorpe Manor in England.
This was where Newton did some of his most important work, developing his ideas on gravity, calculus, and optics.
The famous apple tree still stands behind me, and right in front of me, an apple from that very tree fell.
Newton made these breakthroughs during a period when Cambridge University was closed because of the Great Plague, forcing him to return home to Woolsthorpe. That period became one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of science.
My focus on this journey is to understand, from first principles, how civilization was built. how ideas, discoveries, institutions, and individuals transformed human society.
I will also be visiting Albert Einstein’s birthplace in Ulm, Germany.
The journey continues.