“If I have seen further,” declared the great 17th-century English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This season marks Newton’s 375th birthday, and his ...

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 ...

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...

This book is the foundation for modern physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare first edition of Isaac Newton's ...

Michael Atiyah, a British mathematician who united mathematics and physics during the 1960s in a way not seen since the days of Isaac Newton, died on Friday. He was 89. The Royal Society in London, of ...

It’s easy to think of Newton only as a lonely and antisocial genius sitting at a desk, unraveling the mysteries of the universe. Yet there is so much more. In his lifetime, Newton vigorously conducted ...