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 ...

But it took the genius of Isaac Newton to really discover those laws. He created a mathematical theory that allows us to predict how things will move under the force of gravity or other forces.

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

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

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 ...