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

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Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein's theories on gravity explained, from mass and distance to spacetime deformation and energy.

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal interpersonal skills. "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be ...

Ever since the Ancient Greeks, scientists and philosophers had dreamed of discovering the mathematical laws that run the universe. But it took the genius of Isaac Newton to really discover those laws.

Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world in a chilling letter he penned over 300 years ago. The renowned physicist who discovered the law of gravity wrote in 1704 that the world would cease to ...