Isaac Newton, who must be one of the cleverest individuals ever to have lived, made groundbreaking contributions to physics, mathematics, mechanics, philosophy and astronomy. The laws of motion, the ...

It’s been said that the general public knows three astronomical objects: the Moon, the rings of Saturn, and Halley’s Comet. English astronomer Edmond Halley, born Nov. 8, 1656, didn’t discover the ...

Was Isaac Newton a brilliant rational scientist or a master of the occult? He was revered as a scientific demigod in his own lifetime, but there were hidden sides to his character. This innovative ...

It’s one of the region’s most grand libraries, filled with fascinating reads from a first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica. Did you know ...

A few hundred years before Einstein shared his brilliance with the world, Sir Isaac Newton laid the groundwork for much of modern science and mathematics. For a man of his time, his intelligence and ...

The notebooks in which Sir Isaac Newton worked out the theories on which much classical science is based have been put online by Cambridge University. More than 4,000 pages have been scanned, ...

Isaac Newton became a celebrity thanks to his revolutionary contributions in the field of science. Born in 1643 in England, Newton was a mathematician, physicist and astronomer whose ideas profoundly ...

For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based ...