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It seems unlikely that we will ever lose our fascination for the man whom David Berlinski calls “the largest figure in the history of Western science” and the author of “the greatest of scientific ...

Sir Isaac Newton wondered what made objects fall to Earth. As the story goes, he was sitting under a certain kind of tree when the answer came to him: It was gravity that caused things to fall to ...