The copy of Isaac Newton's seminal treatise Opticks that he had purchased some 20 years before turned out to be from Newton's own personal library, believed lost for many decades.

Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (known by its shortened Latin name, the Principia) is a massive, three-volume 17th-century treatise that is one of the most influential ...

As for Isaac Newton’s prized sample of red earth from John Locke, it was very likely thrown out after Newton died in 1727. Unless someone kept it. Imagine a little packet of Philosophers’ Stone stuck ...

The discovery shows that Sir Isaac Newton could turn his hand to design as well as science and maths. By Sean Coughlan. Education correspondent.

Isaac Newton was not known for his generosity of spirit, and his disdain for his rivals was legendary. But in one letter to his competitor Gottfried Leibniz, now known as the Epistola Posterior, ...

ISAAC NEWTON'S theories came under scrutiny in the Seventies after an astrophysicist spotted an "anomaly" in the galaxies, a documentary revealed. By Callum Hoare 09:00, Thu, Jan 30, 2020 ...

Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton: Birth of Physicist Who Discovered Gravity Celebrated on Christmas Day Published Dec 25, 2017 at 5:21 PM EST Drawing of Sir Isaac Newton contemplating gravity.

Lawrence Principe was sorting through a collection of old chemistry books at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia when he stumbled upon a forgotten manuscript handwritten by Sir Isaac ...