Isaac Newton, inventor and scientist: “A man can imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true”

Explore how Newton’s discoveries in physics, mathematics, and optics reshaped science and continue to influence our understanding of the universe.
CNET

Isaac Newton's notebooks open digital doors

The University of Cambridge has digitized a portion of Isaac Newton's papers, letting anyone see the mathematics and experiments of the famed scientist. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...
The New Yorker

An Oral History of Isaac Newton “Discovering” Gravity, as Told by His Contemporaries

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...
Publishers Weekly

Newton’s Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist

Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-35513-5 Lasky and Hawkes, collaborators on The Man Who Made Time Travel and other titles, provide a ...
Nature

The Work and Discoveries of Joule

THE greatest generalisation in the early history of physical science was made late in the seventeenth century by Sir Isaac Newton when he enunciated the laws of motion and deduced from them the ...

Isaac Newton, scientist and inventor: “A man can imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true”

Explore how Newton’s discoveries in physics, mathematics, and optics reshaped science and continue to influence our understanding of the universe.