Newton was more than just the brainiac behind gravity – turns out, he had a closet full of quirks. He was a bit of an ...

About 7,500 handwritten scripts of Isaac Newton is now online and is shedding new light on his view on science, theology, alchemy and even black magic.

Along with his love for science, Newton was also deeply religious. He based his hypothesis on the Book of Daniel--a biblical work of literature marked by its vivid imagery of a possible judgment day.

Newton believed in apocalyptic visions in the Bible, where a battle of Armageddon would occur between “Gog and Magog” at the end of days. Newton probably only has himself to blame for talking ...

Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he penned in 1704. It's not the end of ...

Isaac Newton, a prematurely born, posthumous son of a “wild, extravagant and weak” father, showed some aptitude for science in boyhood, went to Cambridge as a “poor scholar.” ...

The copy of Isaac Newton's seminal treatise Opticks that he had purchased some 20 years before turned out to be from Newton's own personal library, believed lost for many decades.

Was the scientist Isaac Newton a grandfather of the American Revolution? When Newton published his revolutionary new theories of gravity and motion way back in 1687, I’m sure he didn’t ...

Newton’s third law says that forces act in pairs. Which means if you push on something, it pushes it back on you. That’s why if you are sitting down and push on your desk, you will move.

Sir Isaac Newton, a renowned scientist known for formulating the laws of motion and gravity, predicted the world as we know it would end in 2060.. Newton scrawled this ominous warning on a letter ...