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

Calculus was not born in a classroom, it was born in a fight. Isaac Newton developed fluxions in private during the plague years, while Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz published first in Acta Eruditorum and ...

August 16, 2007 New research suggests that a key aspect of the calculus, commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz in the late 1600s, may in fact have been discovered more than ...

A huge collection of papers belonging to pioneering scientist Sir Isaac Newton – the father of gravity – has been posted online by Cambridge University. The archive includes Newton’s college notebooks ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton is believed to BE the greatest scientist who ever lived. He was also a mathematician, physician and philosopher. He had also formulated theories about motion, gravity and calculus among ...

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