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 ...

Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he penned in 1704.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687). Annals of Science, Vol. 77, September 2, 2020, p. 253. doi: 10.1080/00033790.2020.1808700.

Some of Sir Isaac Newton's unpublished notes, including his discussion of the apocalypse, have sold at auction, for a whopping sum. The notes, which sold for $503,000 (378,000 British pounds) on ...