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.

What exactly is gravity, and how does it work? From Newton’s early groundbreaking discoveries to Einstein’s revolutionary ...

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 ...

Although Newton gets all of the credit for the discovery of calculus in the modern world, he was involved in a controversy with Gottfried Leibniz over who discovered calculus first. Essentially ...

Isaac Newton is one of the most renowned scientists in history, that's why it's shocking that he also dabbled in predicting ...

Towering thinker Sir Isaac Newton carved a now-barely visible doodle of a windmill into a stone wall in his childhood home, according to a news release from the National Trust. The drawing was ...

News about Isaac Newton, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index. ... Why do we reduce great discoveries to epiphany myths?

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.