Sir Isaac Newton is widely remembered as one of history’s greatest scientists, best known for his laws of motion and work on ...

In a column in November, “Isaac Newton Learned About Financial Gravity the Hard Way,” I looked at a new study of the investing career of the great physicist. The great scientist was a hapless investor ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings to walk the face of the Earth. On this day, in 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was born. He would be 371. Newton was a physicist and ...

Did Sir Isaac Newton invent social media or was it a group of medieval harness-polishers? In the 12 th century, craftsmen of various types began to loosely (and then formally) affiliate themselves ...

Isaac Newton was an English polymath who worked in many areas, such as math, physics, astronomy, alchemy, theology, writing, and inventing. His work c.

Manuscript of 1752 biography of Isaac Newton, which recounts how a falling apple led him to the theory of gravity, is available on U.K.'s Royal Society Web site. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Isaac Newton was in his early 20s when the Great Plague of London hit. He wasn’t a “Sir” yet, didn’t have that big formal wig. He was just another college student at Trinity College, Cambridge. It ...

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study of ...

Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department possesses an exceptionally rare unpublished handwritten manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton. The manuscript, a ...

AT last we have an adequate biography of Newton. Prof. More would not wish us to say it was perfect-that would have been impossible-but he has spent seven years reading the documents and considering ...