Isaac Newton (left) and a Bellarmine Jug piece with an embossed face that was discovered at the site of his mother’s home Newton: © National Trust. Jug piece ...

A curious thing happened to Isaac Newton on the way to a grand new exhibition at the New York Public Library, “The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture.” He seems to have gone ...

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It seems unlikely that we will ever lose our fascination for the man whom David Berlinski calls “the largest figure in the history of Western science” and the author of “the greatest of scientific ...