Of Further Interest: Newton

Websites for optional reading and exploration.

NOVA website: Newton's Dark Secrets

• A Complicated Man.  Click here to go to the site.

Interview with Dr. Jed Buchwald, a historian of physics and professor of history at the California Institute of Technology, answering  provocative questions about the man many consider to be the greatest scientist who ever lived. 

• Birth of a Masterpiece.  Click here to go to the site.

How the Principia came about. 

• Einstein on Newton.   Click here to go to the site.

Read up to the "Theory of the Electromagnetic Field". 

• His Legacy.  Click here to go to the site.

A summary of his accomplishments, with a brief description of each:  Invented the Reflecting Telescope; Proposed New Theory of Light and Tolor; Discovered Calculus; Developed Three Laws of Motion; Devised Law of Universal Gravitation; Advanced Early Modern Chemistry, Became Father of Modern Science.

Sir Isaac Newton   (One of the MacTutor series of biographies.)  Click here to go to the site
 

Newton's Views on Space, Time and Motion  (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  Click here to go to the site.  Expect a long and detailed article. 

Videos for optional viewing. 

• The NOVA program "Newton's Dark Secrets" is available on YouTube - click here (51:15). The dark secret is his serious interest and work in alchemy, but there's much more. 

There are a number of informative associated NOVA webpages – see above: Websites for optional reading and exploration.

Updated Oct. 13, 2026