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

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 ...

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 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, ...

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

But it took the genius of Isaac Newton to really discover those laws. He created a mathematical theory that allows us to predict how things will move under the force of gravity or other forces.