Isaac Newton was a legendary scientist best known for establishing the laws of gravity. But in his free time, he dabbled in experiments worthy of Voldemort. Like the “Harry Potter” villain ...

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 ...

When Isaac Newton took on the role of master of the mint in 1696, it marked a stark shift in his career. Once a modest ...

Newton's Laws of Motion is one of the reasons that Sir Isaac Newton is often considered the No. 1 scientist of all time.

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton in 1704 predicts when the world will end. READ MORE: Doomsday clock ticks forward to 89 seconds to midnight By ELLYN LAPOINTE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM. Published: 16:24 EDT ...

The copy of Isaac Newton's seminal treatise Opticks that he had purchased some 20 years before turned out to be from Newton's own personal library, believed lost for many decades.

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal interpersonal skills. "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be ...

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 penned in 1704.

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian and author. He was born on January 4, 1643, in England, and died on March 31, 1727.

Newton believed in apocalyptic visions in the Bible, where a battle of Armageddon would occur between “Gog and Magog” at the end of days. Newton probably only has himself to blame for talking ...