Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian and author. He was born on January 4, 1643, in England, and died on March 31, 1727.

In life, Boyle had guarded his recipe for red earth as if it were the most precious thing in the world. But upon his death, his executor, the philosopher John Locke, also an alchemist, was more ...

Sir Isaac Newton wrote his theory of gravity in a home-made ink created with beer as a key ingredient, a study suggests.. The physicist published his theory of calculus, his three eponymous laws ...

Author Edward Dolnick brought to light a few lesser known examples of Newton's assholery in his enjoyably enlightening book, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of ...