One of its earlier practitioners was Sir Isaac Newton. This is Newton's death mask ... do in the first year of an undergraduate degree in physics actually. On the face of it, it seems baffling ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... Newton produced what is considered the foundation for physics as we know it. The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica took ...

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed ... [those scholars] restored one of the fundamental principles of ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and ... which he applied to general physics. His basic system, developed simultaneously – but independently – from German ...

A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences ...

He was the greatest scientist of his day, perhaps of all time. But while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal law of gravitation, he was also searching out hidden meanings in the Bible ...

By flinging gravity across the void, Isaac Newton united physics and astronomy in a single science of matter in motion. When we step back and look at Newton's universe from afar, what is it ...

The secret behind how the International Space Station remains in orbit can be traced all the way back to the genius of Sir ...

The result is a surprising biography of the father of modern physics, Isaac Newton: the Last Wizard (Record, 378 pages, R$ 40.00), which reveals the intense interest of Newton for occultism and in ...

I n the corridors of the Royal Mint, where gold flowed like water into coin molds, Isaac Newton—the legendary scientist who revolutionized physics—was building his fortune. Yet, a new book ...