This promised to be a terrific book -- the story of Isaac Newton's afterlife, a study of how history, politics, literature and the needs of science transformed a reclusive 17th-century thinker ...

In his painting ‘Newton’, the British poet and painter, William Blake, represents Newton as a divine geometer. He is sitting naked on a rock at the bottom of the ocean leaning over a scroll ...

Ask Sir Isaac Newton how he discovered gravity, discuss Victorian life with Queen Victoria, explore the life of a World War Two soldier and find out about life on the Home Front in the 1940s.

DARK MATTER: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton Philip Kerr, . . Crown, $24 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-609-60981-1. ... with the younger Ellis (again as in real life) serving as his assistant.

Isaac Newton really spent a great chunk of his life as a detective. He was the Master of the Royal Mint for 30 years, and spent a great deal of that time hunting down and capturing counterfeiters.

Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus and explained optics. ... Isaac Newton's early life. Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day to a poor farming family in Woolsthorpe, England, in 1642.