Newton’s Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-35513-5 ...

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 ...

Science Entering New Epoch; Certain Recent Discoveries as Radical as Newton's, Says Waldemar Kaempffert. Share full article. April 5, 1908. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

History's greatest minds, including Einstein and Curie, defied conventional study methods, embracing self-directed learning ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

THE greatest generalisation in the early history of physical science was made late in the seventeenth century by Sir Isaac Newton when he enunciated the laws of motion and deduced from them the ...

For nearly 300 years, Isaac Newton’s first law of motion has been one of the most fundamental principles in physics. But a new study suggests that a small mistranslation in its original English ...