Isaac Newton 
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5/2/2021
Another Bite at the Apple: Isaac Newton's Time as a Man of Politics and Economics
by Patricia Fara
Isaac Newton's life has been retold according to the values of successive historians. Until now, most have shied away from Newton's second career at the Royal Mint, during which he was part of the growth of a British prosperity that was rooted in colonialism and slavery.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/12/2020
Newton’s Daunting Masterpiece had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find
Two historians of science have traced the ownership and sharing of Sir Isaac Newton's first edition of "Principia" to conclude that the book was more widely read and influential among Enlightenment thinkers than previously believed.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
10-9-13
Isaac Newton Died A Virgin And 9 Other Facts About The Brilliant, Bizarre Physicist
Huffington Post Science features the strange background of Isaac Newton.
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A Mediocre Evening with Sir Isaac Newton
by Bruce Chadwick
Isaac’s Eye Ensemble Studio Theater 549 W. 52nd Street New York, N.Y.Wouldn’t it be wonderful if in plays about historical inventors actually told you what was accurate and what was invented? Well, in Isaac’s Eye, a play about philosopher/mathematician Isaac Newton that just opened in New York, they do. A narrator comes out and tells you what is fact and what is fiction and true parts of the plot are written on the blackboards on the walls of the theater. So now you can sit back and enjoy a play about the great man who invented Calculus and figured out motion and gravity, right?No. Isaac’s Eye is a tedious play that tells very little about history. It's ostensibly set in 1665, but all the characters dress and talk as if it took place last Thursday. The single-set story takes place in what looks like a laboratory or classroom, plus lots of chalk to write on the walls.
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