In 1704, Isaac Newton sat down with pen and paper and tried to calculate the end of the world. He didn’t use a telescope or a ...

Isaac Newton is one of the most renowned scientists in history, that's why it's shocking that he also dabbled in predicting ...

Sir Isaac Newton’s prediction of doomsday was scribbled below a series of mathematical calculations, revealing his multidisciplinary interests.

Sir Isaac Newton's famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple fell nearly 350 years ...

The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture, Mordechai Feingold, Oxford University Press: 218 pp., $45 cloth, $22.50 paper ...

But I’m reading a book called Newton and the Origin of Civilization right now, 1 and I’ve learned to my surprise that he invented something else that was similarly groundbreaking. Read on for ...

Crown. 345 pp. $24 Even those of us with only dim memories of high school physics may recall enough to associate Isaac Newton with laws of gravity and laws of motion, but even the more learned ...

A Capella Science has brilliantly re-imagined this critical scene to focus on the two great physicists behind the theory of gravity: Isaac Newton (Dianna Cowern, a.k.a. The Physics Girl) and ...

They estimate that more than 600 copies of the book's first edition, and as many as 750, were printed in 1687. In 2016, a first edition sold for $3.7 million, a record for a science book.