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

Isaac Newton is renowned for renovating the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century. What you may not know is that the famed British mathematician also aimed to overturn ...

Isaac Newton's law of gravity, which was made public in 1687, is being questioned as physicists try and define our universe; theories about dark matter and even more mysterious dark energy have ...

A Wealthy Scientist at the Royal Mint When Isaac Newton took on the role of master of the mint in 1696, it marked a stark shift in his career. Once a modest academic earning £100 a year (about £ ...

Sir Isaac Newton -- best known for his exploits in science and math -- was also a Christian who put his analytical mind to work to calculate when he thought the current age would end with the ...

In Isaac’s Eye, the 20-something Newton is desperate to win the attention of the intellectual elite of his time in order to gain admittance to the Royal Society, recently chartered by King ...

Isaac Newton was not known for his generosity of spirit, and his disdain for his rivals was legendary. But in one letter to his competitor Gottfried Leibniz, now known as the Epistola Posterior, ...

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal interpersonal skills. "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be ...

Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he penned in 1704.

Newton had two known copies of the 1717 second edition of Opticks in his personal library: one "working copy" with his annotations and edits, now in the Huntington Library's collection; and ...

A Toast to Newton and a Long-Lived 'Principia' Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is giving Isaac Newton a party to celebrate publication ...

Newton’s New Vision “Isaac’s Eye,” by Lucas Hnath, imagines Isaac Newton as an ambitious young man hoping to win admission to the Royal Society. By Charles Isherwood Snapshot ...