Who was Isaac Newton? Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, in the family of a small but wealthy farmer. His father did not live to see the birth of his son. The boy was born ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire on Christmas Day 1642, only son of Isaac, a farmer, and his wife Hannah (Ayscough). His father died before his birth ...

Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World. Here are three: 1. It's one thing to dislike the arts, but Newton's disdain for them was ironically an art itself. As Dolnick ...

He would visit Trinity College to see if the secretive Isaac Newton could shed some light on the matter. Newton was living an even more isolated existence than before. Some years earlier his ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.