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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Albert Einstein said, "Fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in language comprehensible to everyone." Sure, individuals must work to comprehend, but we ...

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 ...

A curious thing happened to Isaac Newton on the way to a grand new exhibition at the New York Public Library, “The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture.” He seems to have gone ...

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 ...

A panel of physicists, science historians and playwright Lucas Hnath discuss Newton following a performance of Hnath's play about Newton, called Isaac's Eye, at the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York ...

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 ...

If you asked people strolling down Fifth Avenue to name a genius, most would probably cite Albert Einstein. "Ask them to name another one, it would be (Isaac) Newton," said Mordechai Feingold, curator ...