In Obscurity :: a code to joy
I recently read this remarkable anecdote about Isaac Newton in the refereshingly irreverent A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson: As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he [Newton] invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no one about it for twenty-seven years. In like manner, he did work in optics that transformed our understanding of light and laid the foundation for the science of spectroscopy, and again chose not to share the results for three decades.
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