THERE HAVE BEEN many biographies of Isaac Newton. Indeed, for more than twenty years there has been a near-definitive one, in the shape of Richard Westfall's authoritative, meticulously researched and ...

We prefer our geniuses to wear a little human dirt. In the case of Sir Isaac Newton, there is hardly any private life for him to have been a bounder in. The first and most momentous phase of his ...

Gravity is a familiar, yet deeply perplexing force. Its story is bound up with two of the greatest names in physics, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. In 1687, Newton published his universal law of ...