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Plague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book

In 1665–66 Newton left plague-closed Cambridge for Woolsthorpe. In the causal graph this event strengthens Infectious-Disease Transmission, a driver that weakens Life expectancy at birth — a worsening welfare path.

Plague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book
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In 1665–66 Newton left plague-closed Cambridge for Woolsthorpe. Later lives and his own recollections place early fluxion and optical work in those years. No public book is dated 1666. Isaac Newton's documented role is: He left plague Cambridge for Woolsthorpe and later described early fluxions and optical work from those years. The public books are 1687 and 1704.

Context

The University closed. Trinity paid a scholar. Sharing recollection with later Newton is required; contribution is complex. The setting of Plague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book is the public file around 1666-01-01. Driver infectious-disease-transmission is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Plague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book. Naming Isaac Newton does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1666-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

The later books are not this 1666 imprint. Medium confidence on any unique coefficient; high on the closure. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He left plague Cambridge for Woolsthorpe and later described early fluxions and optical work from those years. The public books are 1687 and 1704.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactPlague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book
    2. strengthensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
    3. weakensIndicators (3)Life expectancy at birth
    Mixed path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1666 · verified

    A received research withdrawal is stored as context for later public books, not as a fake 1666 publication.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.The Newton Project — De motu corporum manuscriptsThe Newton Project / University of Oxford · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Isaac Newton, Lucasian Professor 1669Encyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica independently narrates the plague-year withdrawal. The Newton Project edits early papers as later carriers. Official carrier: The Newton Project — early mathematical papers and plague-year context (https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/ (opens in a new tab); The Newton Project / University of Oxford). Independent carrier: Britannica — Newton, plague years, Woolsthorpe (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Newton (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: Cambridge closed and Newton was at Woolsthorpe. Not established: a unique 1666 theorem title page, or a falling-apple autograph. Established: a sourced public record of Plague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book under 1666-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Plague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorIsaac Newton
  2. contributed toFactPlague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book
  3. strengthensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
  4. weakensIndicatorLife expectancy at birth

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Factrail. (2026). Plague-year withdrawal to Woolsthorpe is the received setting of early calculations, not a dated book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/newton-plague-years-received

https://factrail.ai/facts/newton-plague-years-received

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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