Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study ...

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.

He would visit Trinity College to see if the secretive Isaac Newton could shed some light on the matter. Newton was living an even more isolated existence than before. Some years earlier his ...

Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography reveals Newton as both a hermit and a tyrant, a heretic and an alchemist. Magical images mix with ...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...

Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had projected white light through a prism onto a wall and had a friend mark the boundaries between the colors, which Newton then named. In his diagrams, ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire on Christmas Day 1642, only son of Isaac, a farmer, and his wife Hannah (Ayscough). His father died before his birth ...