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 ...

The Physicists opens with a corpse stretched out on the stage, and the play promptly follows suit. The setting is a sanitarium for the insane, but the chief delusion of the evening is harbored ...

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”.

The 200th anniversary of the death of Newton falls at this time. One's thoughts cannot but turn to this shining spirit, who pointed out, as none before or after him did, the path of Western ...

Isaac Newton This inward, quarrelsome man, who often forgot to eat his meals, invented the calculus and laid the foundations of mechanics and optics—all in 18 "golden" months after graduating ...

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.

"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 ...

Isaac Newton was one of the smartest people to ever live. But there's a big difference between being a smart physicist and smart investor. And, unfortunately for him, Newton learned that the hard way.

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 ...

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 ...

Ludwig, Bernd 1992. What Is Newton's Law of Inertia About? Philosophical Reasoning and Explanation in Newton'sPrincipia. Science in Context, Vol. 5, Issue. 1, p. 139 ...

Dempsey, Liam 2006. Written in the flesh: Isaac Newton on the mind–body relation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Vol. 37, Issue. 3, p. 420.