Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687. Newton had ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

A POPULAR MISCONCEPTION; SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S GREAT DISCOVERY. Share full article. ... in regard to the erroneous notion which is so commonly held as to the discovery of America, ...

Isaac Newton was arguably the greatest mind to ever contribute to science. He was only 23 years old when he described the laws of motion, and his Earth-shattering works led to the invention of ...

History's greatest minds, including Einstein and Curie, defied conventional study methods, embracing self-directed learning ...

Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he penned in 1704.