Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... as Robert Hannah's 19th Century portrait shows. At the very end of his life, Newton told a story which has become one of the most ...

Humphrey Newton, Isaac's assistant and distant relative ... overlooked by the giant portrait of Henry VIII. “There goes the man that writt a book that neither he nor anybody else understands.” ...

The 200th anniversary of the death of Newton falls at this time. One's thoughts cannot but turn to this shining spirit, who pointed out, as none before or after him did, the path of Western ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire on Christmas Day 1642, only son of Isaac, a farmer, and his wife Hannah (Ayscough). His father died before his birth ...

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 ...

This pastel portrait of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock attributed to Gerrit Schipper, portrays Brock in the uniform of an Officer in the British Army in Canada. Although born in Guernsey ...

This pastel portrait of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock attributed to Gerrit Schipper, portrays Brock in the uniform of an Officer in the British Army in Canada. Although born in Guernsey ...

A letter from the renowned English scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end as we know it. The warning, scrawled above a maths calculation on a letter slip in 1704 ...