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 ...

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.

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.

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian and author. He was born on January 4, 1643, in England, and died on March 31, 1727.

Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he penned in 1704.