A new online Isaac Newton archive sheds light on an era where science, theology, alchemy and plain old black magic was all intertwined, Liz Williams reports for the Guardian. Back in the day, our ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton’s 17th century book, the Principia, gave the famed English scientist a reputation: “[T]here goes the man that writt a book that neither he nor any body else understands,” a Cambridge ...

Archaeologists found items like tableware and other artifacts that might have belonged to Isaac Newton’s mother, Hannah ...

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Sir Isaac Newton — the 17th-century scientist, mathematician and father of physics? Yeah, you know him. But you may not know Newton was super into alchemy, a medieval "science" that preceded chemistry ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A bound copy of Sir Isaac Newton's seminal book on mathematics and science was sold for $3.7 ...

The scientific rigor of Isaac Newton transformed physics, optics, and even Britain’s money and law, culminating in the Great Recoinage.

Science texts aren't normally top earners at auctions, but Christie's just proved that there are major exceptions to this rule. The auction house has sold a first edition of Isaac Newton's 1687 ...

Today, on April 15, in 1726, English antiquarian William Stukeley visited Sir Isaac Newton, a day he would recall after Newton's death in his 1752 book, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life. They ...