THIS little book is based on two lectures delivered about three years ago, the first at the Newton tercentenary meeting of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, and the second at a subsequent ...

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 ...

The phrase is understood to mean that if Newton had been able to discover more about the universe than others, then it was because he was working in the light of discoveries made by fellow ...

At the same time, to better understand the texts he was reading, Newton began to study mathematics in earnest, laying the foundation for his later discoveries. The summer after Newton graduated ...

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 claims made during the event included comments on theoretical physics — including the discoveries from Einstein and Newton to be scientifically wrong. Several Indian scientists are upset ...