The last major private repository of manuscripts and correspondence by Isaac Newton and his circle was held in the extraordinary library at Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire, UK, seat of the earls of ...

Renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end in a letter dating back more than 300 years ago. Also a theologian, Sir Isaac based his predictions for the end of the world on ...

THIS is an excellently written biography of the genius Sir Isaac Newton. It has popular appeal in mind and so its accounts of his experiments and discoveries are both accurate and understandable, and ...

Manuscript of 1752 biography of Isaac Newton, which recounts how a falling apple led him to the theory of gravity, is available on U.K.'s Royal Society Web site. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...