Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.

Speaking to the magazine, Newton talks about the challenges of raising her children whilst working. She also talks about her own childhood and how her mother seemed to different to her peers’ parents.

He would visit Trinity College to see if the secretive Isaac Newton could shed some light on the matter. Newton was living an even more isolated existence than before. Some years earlier his ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire on Christmas Day 1642, only son of Isaac, a farmer, and his wife Hannah (Ayscough). His father died before his birth ...

Every Valley,” by Charles King, follows Handel’s path toward creating a musical masterpiece that’s still inescapable.

WE have reached a position when biography is taken seriously ... the sources themselves in readable form. Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life by William Stukeley, M.D., F.R.S., 1752: being some ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...

J. Gray's “Bibliography of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton”, second edition, 1907, p. 20. I wish to prove that it was translated by Andrew Motte, the translator of the “Principia”.

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...

Giles Wood, from Dorset, purchased the sapling at an auction held to raise money for Newton's childhood home Woolsthorpe ... where they make their own cider named Isaac Cider.

Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography reveals Newton as both a hermit and a tyrant, a heretic and an alchemist. Magical images mix with ...