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 ...

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 ...

Three centuries before it officially began, Isaac Newton laid the foundation for the modern era. He defined time, space and motion and used these concepts to prove the existence of gravity. In his ...

It seems unlikely that we will ever lose our fascination for the man whom David Berlinski calls “the largest figure in the history of Western science” and the author of “the greatest of scientific ...

It’s not the end of the world… yet. 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 ...

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