Here are 14 things that you might not have known about Sir Isaac. 1. Isaac Newton was born prematurely and barely survived his first week on earth. Newton’s father, ...

Sir Isaac Newton Experimented With A Cure For The 1660s Plague In documents up for auction, we're learning about Newton's experiment. First, hang a toad upside down for three days and collect its ...

A lot of nonfiction for kids in upper elementary and middle school is what I think of as “book report books.” They’re packed with facts, but not presented in a way that makes them very ...

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 ...

An "incredibly scarce" first edition of a Sir Isaac Newton book has sold at auction for £24,000. The copy of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in English, ...

An "incredibly scarce" first edition of a Sir Isaac Newton book has sold at auction for £24,000. The copy of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in English, published in 1729, was given ...

A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton who bought a sapling from the apple tree said to have inspired the theory of gravity has said he plans to plant it in the family's cider orchard.

In his 1752 biography, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life, William Stukeley recounted the story as told by Newton himself. In this version, the apple didn’t necessarily hit Newton; he merely observed ...

A rare 50p coin celebrating the life and work of English scientist Sir Isaac Newton is selling for £140 on eBay. The anonymous seller – listed as c-t7 – from St Albans in Hertfordshire, has ...