When Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left behind no will and an enormous stack of papers. His surviving correspondences, notes, and manuscripts contain an estimated 10 million words, enough to ...

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed.Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view ...

Isaac Newton's seven-point formula that predicts world's end in 2060 The iconic Englishman was born on this day 380 years ago, but the world only has 37 years left, if his formula is to be trusted.

Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the year of Galileo's death, ... Heather Whipps writes about history, anthropology and health for Live Science.

Jan 4 is the official birthday of renowned mathematician, physicist and astronomer Isaac Newton. Millennials have something of a grudge against Sir Isaac Newton. If Newton's discovery of the Laws ...

This is not another biography of Isaac Newton. Instead, Patricia Fara, an experienced author on the history of early modern science, has reconstructed Newton's images — scientific, professional ...

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 ...

Here’s a short history of the space gun and all those futile efforts to launch things up into space sans rockets. 1728: Isaac Newton Invents the Space Gun The first man to consider assassinating ...

Among those on the run: a young scholar of Trinity College named Isaac Newton. Newton’s home, a farm called Woolsthorpe, lay about sixty miles north of the university.

Some of history’s most brilliant scientists have occupied the Lucasian Chair, including Newton, Dirac and Hawking. Others were not so stellar.