AT last we have an adequate biography of Newton. Prof. More would not wish us to say it was perfect-that would have been impossible-but he has spent seven years reading the documents and considering ...

WITH regard to the new biography of Isaac Newton by Prof. More and to the review in NATURE of January 5 (p. 3), the following considerations may be of interest. Brought up in a family devoted to the ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings to walk the face of the Earth. On this day, in 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was born. He would be 371. Newton was a physicist and ...

It’s not the end of the world… yet. 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 ...

Manuscript of 1752 biography of Isaac Newton, which recounts how a falling apple led him to the theory of gravity, is available on U.K.'s Royal Society Web site. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Isaac Newton was in his early 20s when the Great Plague of London hit. He wasn’t a “Sir” yet, didn’t have that big formal wig. He was just another college student at Trinity College, Cambridge. It ...

Did Sir Isaac Newton invent social media or was it a group of medieval harness-polishers? In the 12 th century, craftsmen of various types began to loosely (and then formally) affiliate themselves ...

A portrait of scientist Isaac Newton, who developed a toad vomit–based cure for the bubonic plague Godfrey Kneller via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 If someone told you that Sir Isaac ...

In a column in November, “Isaac Newton Learned About Financial Gravity the Hard Way,” I looked at a new study of the investing career of the great physicist. The great scientist was a hapless investor ...

Sir Isaac Newton, the polymath who discovered gravity in his early twenties and is credited with groundbreaking advances in calculus, physics and optics, took notes on a possible cure for the plague ...