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He’s one of history’s greatest thinkers, but while Sir Isaac Newton changed our understanding of the universe, he had some pretty bonkers ideas in his time, too. Unpublished notes penned by the ...

If you asked people strolling down Fifth Avenue to name a genius, most would probably cite Albert Einstein. "Ask them to name another one, it would be (Isaac) Newton," said Mordechai Feingold, curator ...

Isaac Newton is renowned for renovating the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century. What you may not know is that the famed British mathematician also aimed to overturn ...

Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (known by its shortened Latin name, the Principia) is a massive, three-volume 17th-century treatise that is one of the most influential ...

One of the most valuable scientific documents in history changed hands this week, when an autographed Isaac Newton manuscript of revisions to three sections of the first edition of the Philosophiae ...