Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is celebrated as one of history's greatest scientific minds, laying the foundations of modern physics with his groundbreaking laws of motion and universal gravitation.

Isaac Newton changed the ... describe the physical world. Like Newton, he created a new theory of calculus. However, Newton claimed he'd done the same work 20 years before and that Leibniz had ...

Isaac Newton ... (a claim Newton denied), Newton vowed that he would no longer publish scientific papers, a vow he kept for many years. Then, in 1687, after spending more than 20 years developing ...

ISAAC NEWTON: Yo, yo, yo, I'm Isaac Newton and the year is 1667. If you don't know who I am, well then you should. I'm only one of the biggest scientists of all time. [chuckles] I'm a famous ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have now found a permanent resting place in the Museum of Treviso. The prisms in question were originally ...

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 ...