Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687. Newton had ...

Isaac Newton's personal copy of the 1717 second edition of Opticks, long thought lost, has been found. Credit: Peter Harrington Rare Books ...

In the corridors of the Royal Mint, where gold flowed like water into coin molds, Isaac Newton—the legendary scientist who ...

A pristine personal copy of Isaac Newton’s book "Opticks" that was recently found after going missing for a century is going up for auction. While organizing his collection, DiLaura, a professor ...

AN exhibition of books connected with Newton is being held in the Wigan Central Library from November 23 until early in 1943, to celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of Sir Isaac Newton, at ...

A letter from the renowned English scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end as we know it. The warning, scrawled above a maths calculation on a letter slip in 1704, says Earth ...

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.

In this extract from the new book Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science, science writer Philip Ball explains how Isaac Newton transformed our understanding of light.