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

PRINCIPIA : MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ISAAC NEWTON A NEW TRANSLATION BY I BERNARD COHEN AND ANNE WHITMAN ASSISTED BY JULIA BUDENZ PRECEDED BY A GUIDE TO NEWTONS PRINCIPIA BY I ...

ANDREW MOTTE'S translation of the “Principia” is not so well known as it deserves to be. It was supplied to his brother, the publisher, soon after Newton's death. One might expect it then to be no ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings to walk the face of the Earth. On this day, in 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was born. He would be 371. Newton was a physicist and ...

Calculus was not born in a classroom, it was born in a fight. Isaac Newton developed fluxions in private during the plague ...