Volume 3, No. 4: Winter 2008

Science & Technology

Demystifying Newton: The Force Behind the Genius

November 20, 2008
Demystifying Newton: The Force Behind the Genius

Einstein credited Isaac Newton, the father of physics and arguably the founder of scientific certainty, with “the greatest advance in thought that a single individual was ever privileged to make.” The compliment is not hyperbole: In his Principia and the discoveries that preceded it, Newton single-handedly deciphered more of the universe’s enigmas than …