Newton’s illuminating treatise analyzes the fundamental nature of light and is considered one of the Scientific Revolution’s three major works on optics. The long-lost copy was discovered by ...

Isaac Newton's personal copy of the 1717 second edition of Opticks, long thought lost, has been found. Credit: Peter Harrington Rare Books ...

As a boy, Newton may have drawn the windmill after observing one that had been built near the manor, Pickup says. Newton was born at the manor in 1642, and returned there from the University of ...

The last census of Newton's Principia, published in 1953, identified 189 copies. The new Caltech survey counts 386 copies, including 91 auctioned volumes and versions found in libraries and ...

First published in 1687, Newton's groundbreaking treatise on physics, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) details the three laws of motion ...

Twenty-odd years before Newton stated the three laws of motion, he conducted a simple, breakthrough prism experiment. He poked a hole through his window shade, allowing a single beam of light to ...