The great materialists of ancient Greek civilization had indeed postulated the reference of all material phenomena to a process of atomic ... undulatory theory also made use of Newton's law ...

The celebrated English scientist Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in a small village in England named ...

Isaac Newton changed the way ... But, naturally secretive, he kept his ideas to himself. Newton continued to experiment in his laboratory. This mix of theory and practice led him to many different ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...

The story of how Newton came up with his gravitational theory is one of the most familiar ... Philip Ball tells the story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas Day ...

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us ...