Isaac Newton: The man who discovered gravity

The story of Isaac Newton's life. He discovered gravity, and the laws of motion that underpin much of modern physics. Yet he ...

KS2 Science: The work of Sir Isaac Newton

This vlog style film for primary schools explores the work of Sir Isaac Newton as a physicist and astronomer, and looks at ...

Isaac Newton's apple tree is still alive today, more than 350 years after it inspired one of science's greatest discoveries

Almost everyone has heard some version of the story, an apple fell from a tree, struck Isaac Newton on the head, and the ...

Newton's apple tree, 'Flower of Kent' is 350 years old and still growing: What is this 'rare' variety, and where can it be found in the world?

The popular tale of Isaac Newton's gravity discovery is rooted in a real event. A specific apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor ...

Quote of the day by Isaac Newton: 'As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all thin…

Isaac Newton, renowned for his physics breakthroughs, also explored faith, believing science and religion illuminated the ...

Quote of the day by Isaac Newton: "Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in…"

We often assume the smartest answer must be the most complicated one. Big words, tangled explanations, layers upon layers of ...
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 ...

Review: OnStage Playhouse’s ‘Isaac’s Eye’ a blazing-fast scientific yarn

In Lucas Hnath’s innovative and whimsical play “Isaac’s Eye,” the audience meets two of the 17th-century’s greatest ...
Artnet

A Dig Near Isaac Newton’s Famed Apple Tree Reveals a Trove of Everyday Objects

Archaeologists in the U.K. have uncovered a miscellany of everyday objects from the site of a house that was built for the mother of Isaac Newton in the 1650s. The house, which was demolished 200 ...
Astronomy

July 5, 1687: Newton’s Principia is published

Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687. Newton had developed the foundational ideas for the work as early as 1666, when an outbreak of ...