Sir Isaac Newton wrote his theory of gravity in a home-made ink created with beer as a key ingredient, a study suggests. The physicist published his theory of calculus, his three eponymous laws of ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire on Christmas Day 1642, only son of Isaac, a farmer, and his wife Hannah (Ayscough). His father died before his birth ...