Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of ... laying the foundation for his later discoveries. The summer after Newton graduated, in 1665, the plague was spreading in Cambridge.

Newton enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he found a father figure who set him on the road to important discoveries. Isaac Barrow, Cambridge's first professor of mathematics, steered ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...

The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in ... Unique for time, Newton is also famous for his revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, optics, physics and astronomy.

For nearly 300 years, Isaac Newton’s first law of motion has been one of the most fundamental principles in physics. But a ...

The Lincolnshire home of scientist Sir Isaac Newton is to reopen to the public ... keen to find out where some of the greatest discoveries and theories of all time were inspired," she said.

ISAAC NEWTON: Yo, yo, yo ... This short film is from the BBC series, Scientists and their discoveries. As a starter to introduce a practical science activity, you could write a simple quiz ...

with new discoveries occurring daily. Newton’s theory of gravity and Galileo’s description of planetary motion are key components of classical physics. Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... Newton is most commonly known for his conception of the law of universal gravitation, but his other discoveries and inventions in ...