Isaac Newton is renowned for renovating the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century. What you may not know is that the famed British mathematician also aimed to overturn ...

Sir Isaac Newton, a revolutionary scientist, is widely attributed with the quote, “Live your life as an exclamation rather ...

It is hard to think of a name that has been more influential in science than Isaac Newton. Sure, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Darwin, Curie, and [add your favorite here] are all spectacular scientists ...

Silver was worth more on the continent as bullion than it was in the UK as tender, so arbitrageurs shipped coins abroad, ...

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Who knew doing nothing could be so effective? Most people probably know the portion of Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion that describes inertia: "objects at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted ...

Handwritten notes by Isaac Newton on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sold for £378,000 ($511,000) at an auction earlier in December. The papers, from around the 1680s, had been almost completely destroyed ...