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 had dark secrets.

Scientists used children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve a physics problem Richard Feynman could not; the reverse version spins 50 times slower

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how ...
PBS

Newton's First Law of Motion

Keep on moving – or not! Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion! Dr. Rob and the Crew use bowling balls, beads, and bottles to investigate Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion: An object at rest stays ...

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 ...
Hackaday

Mistranslation Of Newton’s First Law Discovered After Nearly 300 Years

For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based ...
The Washington Post

Isaac Newton, Laying Down the Law

Crown. 345 pp. $24 Even those of us with only dim memories of high school physics may recall enough to associate Isaac Newton with laws of gravity and laws of motion, but even the more learned among ...