But even gilding would have had a smack of profanation about it, and we are delighted to have Newton left to speak for himself in the old, imperishable, words whose full meaning is only now ...

SIR ISAAC NEWTON:Oh get me down ... I'm having to push against the floor to stop blacking out. DICK:Look at his face. DOM:It feels like this bag is made out of solid metal. DICK:'He's done ...

One of its earlier practitioners was Sir Isaac Newton. This is Newton's death mask, it's a plaster cast of his face that would've been taken moments after he died, you think of Newton as almost an ...

In this elegant, absorbing biography of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Rupert Hall surveys the vast field of modern scholarship in order to interpret Newton's mathematical and experimental approach to ...