Isaac Newton is best known for his development of mathematics and physics, but he also took a keen interest in economics and ...

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study ...

More programming details for BBC Two's Genius Of Invention season. Sir Isaac Newton is considered by many to be the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. Born with no father and abandoned by ...

Newton wrote parts of this private journal in a secret code, which historians only cracked in the 1960sOne of history's greatest minds, Sir Isaac Newton's 'discovery' of gravity established him as ...

the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton. Those two scientific geniuses, as Sir Isaac himself acknowledged, built upon the work of others, and how they came to design their inventions ...

But a surprising number have no idea these great inventions – and many more ... allegedly, invented by Sir Isaac Newton so his cat, Spithead, could come and go as he pleased while the ...

Renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end in a letter dating back more than 300 years ago. Also a theologian, Sir Isaac based his predictions for the end of the world ...

Sir Isaac Newton is considered by many to be the greatest ... In this special one-off film, part of BBC Two’s Genius Of Invention season, historian and author A.N. Wilson explores the life ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire on Christmas Day 1642, only son of Isaac, a farmer, and his wife Hannah (Ayscough). His father died before his birth ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have now found a permanent resting place in the Museum of Treviso. The prisms in question were originally ...