The Lincolnshire home of scientist Sir Isaac Newton is to reopen to the public after its annual winter conservation work. He was born at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham in 1642 and later returned ...

Isaac Newton was in his early 20s when the Great Plague of London hit. He wasn’t a “Sir” yet ... First, he continued to work on mathematical problems he had begun at Cambridge; the papers ...

Isaac Newton ... related to Newton's mathematical and optical work. One has a telescope, one is looking through a prism and another is balancing the Sun and planets on a steel yard. Others depict ...

Sir Isaac Newton, the polymath who discovered ... infected with the Plague are to be avoided.” Newton took these notes while studying the work of Jan Baptiste Van Helmont, a renowned chemist ...

On the release of the coin eight years ago, the Royal Mint provided the historical context behind the coin: "When Sir Isaac Newton came to The Royal Mint, Britain's finances were approaching crisis.

Sir Isaac Newton contributed significantly to the field of science over his lifetime. He invented calculus and provided a clear understanding of optics. But his most significant work had to do ...