Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... Sussex and Macclesfield were pall bearers. The Hon. Sir Michael Newton was chief mourner (London Journal 8 April 1727) Newton's ...

Sir Isaac Newton predicted in 1704 that the world would end in 2060. The legendary scientist best known for discovering gravity made the prediction based on biblical texts. He particularly ...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...