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

History's greatest minds, including Einstein and Curie, defied conventional study methods, embracing self-directed learning ...

As for Isaac Newton’s prized sample of red earth from John Locke, it was very likely thrown out after Newton died in 1727. Unless someone kept it. Imagine a little packet of Philosophers’ Stone stuck ...

Newton’s Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-35513-5 ...