Handwritten notes by Isaac Newton on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sold for £378,000 ($511,000) at an auction earlier in December. The papers, from around the 1680s, had been almost completely destroyed ...

Best known for his theory of universal gravitation, Isaac Newton was one of the most famous scientists of his time. But he kept some of his ideas private and unpublished, including his work on alchemy ...

Some of Sir Isaac Newton's unpublished notes, including his discussion of the apocalypse, have sold at auction, for a whopping sum. The notes, which sold for $503,000 (378,000 British pounds) on Dec.

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Researchers have discovered a long lost collection of notes by 17th century English physicist Sir Isaac Newton. The notes on alchemy were originally discovered after Newton’s death in 1727 but were ...

LONDON — Handwritten notes that show one of history’s greatest scientific minds in action are going up for auction in London. Pages containing Isaac Newton’s jotted revisions to his masterwork, the ...

In response to the issue of the Beastie Boys’ use of sampling the musical sound from composer-flutist James Newton’s recorded composition “Choir” (“A Musician Writes It, a Rapper Borrows It; A Swap or ...

LONDON (AP) — Handwritten notes that show one of history’s greatest scientific minds in action are going up for auction in London. Pages containing Isaac Newton’s jotted revisions to his masterwork, ...