Well, that’s how it is when you’re Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727). In the arena of science, Newton is as renowned as names get. His world-changing Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first ...

In his painting ‘Newton’, the British poet and painter, William Blake, represents Newton as a divine geometer. He is sitting naked on a rock at the bottom of the ocean leaning over a scroll, and ...