Sunday's Google Doodle celebrates the 372nd birthday of mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He was born near the end of the Thirty Years War, into a world very different from ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton are an unlikely pair for a face-off on Twitter. But a class at Muskegon Community College has brought the pair’s struggle for credit as the inventor of ...

Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj This propulsive account from journalist Miller (Agent 110) brings to vivid life a little-known ...

The darker side of Isaac Newton is the theme of a new play currently on show at the New End Theatre in London. Written by the chemist Carl Djerassi, "Calculus" examines Newton's famous dispute with ...

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...

If, on the other hand, Newton’s scientific ideas had turned out to be as sterile as those of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz or Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, then his philosophical ideas would today be a ...

Together with extracts from Newton's “Principia” and “Opticks”. Edited with Introduction and Notes by H. G. Alexander. (Philosophical Classics.) Pp. lvi + 200. (Manchester: Manchester University Press ...