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Meet Isaac Newton: The Miracle Years

Plague closed his university, so a 23-year-old went home to a farm and invented calculus, optics, and gravitation.

Founder of the West's first university, and author of the most famous thought experiment ever written.

He invented logic, organized every science of his age, and taught that excellence is not an act but a habit.

Two years in hiding, one red-checkered diary — and one of the most honest accounts of a human being ever written.

She left a comfortable convent with five rupees and built a global order — one dying stranger at a time.

From a prison cell, he copied the dictionary by hand — and emerged one of the sharpest debaters of his century.

The myth says she was tired. The truth is better: she was trained, prepared, and precisely ready when the moment came.

A shy lawyer who could barely speak in court became the man who ended an empire’s rule — without raising an army.

He was 26 when Montgomery chose him. What he built next was not just a movement — it was a discipline of courage anyone can study.

He never wanted the throne — which may be exactly why his private notebook became the most enduring manual for a steady mind.