SIR ISAAC NEWTON:Oh get me down ... Dick and Dom describe the major scientific achievements of 'Absolute Genius', Archimedes, who is best known for his work on floating and sinking.

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have now found a permanent resting place in the Museum of Treviso. The prisms in question were originally ...

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 ...