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.

the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton. Those two scientific geniuses, as Sir Isaac himself acknowledged, built upon the work of others, and how they came to design their inventions ...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...

His tutor Isaac Barrow is also buried in the Abbey. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672, Newton served as its President from 1705 to 1727. He became Master of the Mint in 1699 and was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...