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Anyone who imagines Newton probably imagines him sitting under a tree waiting for an apple or the moon to fall on his head. The episode is part of the mythology associated with precocious genius, but it is a fact that in the two years between 1664 and 1666, between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-four, Newton had his first creative explosion, in which he laid the foundations of modern physics. Between 1684 and 1687 he then had a second, during which he wrote the masterpiece of scientific literature, the Principia Mathematica, of which Odifreddi will read the most discursive pages to try to penetrate the thoughts of his deep mind, which changed our vision of the world.