The story of Isaac Newton's life. He discovered gravity, and the laws of motion that underpin much of modern physics. Yet he ...

AT last we have an adequate biography of Newton. Prof. More would not wish us to say it was perfect-that would have been impossible-but he has spent seven years reading the documents and considering ...

The last major private repository of manuscripts and correspondence by Isaac Newton and his circle was held in the extraordinary library at Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire, UK, seat of the earls of ...

Timothy Ferris is the author, most recently, of "Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe," which won the 2003 PEN USA West award for research nonfiction ...

Manuscript of 1752 biography of Isaac Newton, which recounts how a falling apple led him to the theory of gravity, is available on U.K.'s Royal Society Web site. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Did Sir Isaac Newton invent social media or was it a group of medieval harness-polishers? In the 12 th century, craftsmen of various types began to loosely (and then formally) affiliate themselves ...