What exactly is gravity, and how does it work? From Newton’s early groundbreaking discoveries to Einstein’s revolutionary ...

Here’s how it works. Isaac Newton laid the blueprints for his three laws of motion, still recited by physics students, in 1666. (Image credit: Library of Congress) ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author universally considered to be one of the most influential scientists of all time.

Newton’s legacy is more than the sum of his discoveries. His flaws, his errors, and his scheming, too, changed the direction of science in profound ways.

In his painting ‘Newton’, the British poet and painter, William Blake, represents Newton as a divine geometer. He is sitting naked on a rock at the bottom of the ocean leaning over a scroll ...

It Did for Isaac Newton ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY Newton’s fascination with alchemy didn’t turn lead into gold, but it did lead to revelations about visible light. G. Clay Whittaker ...

When Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left behind no will and an enormous stack of papers. His surviving correspondences, notes, and manuscripts contain an estimated 10 million words, enough to ...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-35513-5 Lasky and Hawkes, collaborators on The Man Who Made Time Travel and other titles, provide a sensitive look at Isaac Newton.

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 ...

Isaac Newton’s Lost Alchemy Recipe Rediscovered The legendary physicist tried for years to turn lead into gold—and may have used a newly recovered manuscript in his quest.