The great scientist was able to write in English, Latin, and Greek – His family kept the notes for 150 years before handing ...

He then looks at Newton’s 'Principia Mathematica', before concluding that science is about simplifying the complex world around us, creating controllable and repeatable experiments to test ...

Halley's report was duly recorded in the minutes, and he was urged to push Newton to publish his little work as soon as possible. The Principia was not an easy book to read in Newton's day ...

Meanwhile another man took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to explain how he is reading Newton's Principia Mathematica and has since concluded that people on the social media have low IQs.

In this episode Simon Schaffer, Professor of History of Science at the University of Cambridge, visits three events pivotal to the genesis of Isaac Newton's paradigm-shattering book the Principia ...

Newton published what is generally acknowledged to be the greatest scientific book ever written, the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. The book, which described Newton's theories on ...

Think of Denis Diderot’s “Encyclopédie,” Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica,” America’s Bill of Rights, the heroic couplet, neoclassical architecture or even poet William Blake ...