Sir Isaac Newton: Unhappy Scientific Genius

Learn more about the scientific genius who laid the foundations for calculus and defined the laws of gravity, but who lived a lonely and unhappy personal life, in this documentary from Biography. Chapters 00:00 Isaac Newton’s Legacy in Modern Science 05:17 Discovering Descartes and the Language of...

45 min - People & Biography - Biography

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