science

On 10 January 1778, Carl Linnaeus died in Uppsala after a series of strokes had already taken most of his memory. He left behind a two-word naming system that every biologist on Earth still uses.

On 4 January 1643, Isaac Newton was born in a hamlet in Lincolnshire - a premature, posthumous child who would go on to invent calculus, write the greatest physics book ever published, and spend thirty years looking for the philosopher's stone.