Sir Isaac Newton’s prediction of doomsday was scribbled below a series of mathematical calculations, revealing his multidisciplinary interests.

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 ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station have given a zero gravity tribute to famed 17th century scientist Sir Isaac Newton in honor of his pioneering work to understand the laws of gravity ...

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

Sir Isaac Newton's famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple fell nearly 350 years ...

Crown. 345 pp. $24 Even those of us with only dim memories of high school physics may recall enough to associate Isaac Newton with laws of gravity and laws of motion, but even the more learned ...

The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture, Mordechai Feingold, Oxford University Press: 218 pp., $45 cloth, $22.50 paper ...

A Capella Science has brilliantly re-imagined this critical scene to focus on the two great physicists behind the theory of gravity: Isaac Newton (Dianna Cowern, a.k.a. The Physics Girl) and ...

They estimate that more than 600 copies of the book's first edition, and as many as 750, were printed in 1687. In 2016, a first edition sold for $3.7 million, a record for a science book.