Newton begins his 1672 account by relating his surprise that the colored spectrum produced by his prism was rectangular in shape rather than circular, "as the received laws of Refraction" would ...

In 1704, Isaac Newton sat down with pen and paper and tried to calculate the end of the world. He didn’t use a telescope or a ...

Isaac Newton is one of the most renowned scientists in history, that's why it's shocking that he also dabbled in predicting the end of the world.

The end, apparently, is nigh.Yes, when Newton wasn't revolutionizing our notions of motion and gravity he was, by today's standards, a bit of a weird dude. As well as dedicating a lot of his spare ...

Sir Isaac Newton -- best known for his exploits in science and math -- was also a Christian who put his analytical mind to work to calculate when he thought the current age would end with the ...

As we shall see, there is more to light than meets the eye. Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, by the Julian calendar of the day, and on January 4, 1643, by today’s Gregorian calendar.

Newton had two known copies of the 1717 second edition of Opticks in his personal library: one "working copy" with his annotations and edits, now in the Huntington Library's collection; and ...