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Largest Pest Epidemic in Europ; 1350 Birthday of Newton: 1642
Priorities? Privilege? Nae, Propaganda ;)
Just because the largest outbreak was bot during newton's lifetime, many smaller ones were. The biggest would be the great pest from 1708 to 1714 with more than a million deaths.
So the meme is accurate enough.
Considering how casually we took covid after just a year or two, if it had been going on for the past 300 years, I don't think it would stop a guy from playing around with pieces of glass :D
You're absolutely right about that ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London?useskin=vector
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton?useskin=vector#Optics