THIS is a scientific period as remarkable as that in which Sir Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity," said Waldemar Kaempffert, of The Scientific American. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

At the same time, to better understand the texts he was reading, Newton began to study mathematics in earnest, laying the foundation for his later discoveries. The summer after Newton graduated ...

Newton enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he found a father figure who set him on the road to important discoveries. Isaac Barrow, Cambridge's first professor of mathematics, steered ...

Sir Isaac Newton's 'discovery' of gravity established him as the father of modern science. This calf-leather bound notebook is a private diary kept by Newton in his twenties while at Trinity ...

Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had projected white light through a prism onto a wall and had a friend mark the boundaries between the colors, which Newton then named. In his diagrams, ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...

The phrase is understood to mean that if Newton had been able to discover more about the universe than others, then it was because he was working in the light of discoveries made by fellow ...