Isaac Newton

A handwritten manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton exploring the origi
RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts Sale ending December 11 features nearly 900 items with a special focus on science and technology. 
A rare handwritten letter by Napoleon Bonaparte playfully criticizing his tutor's work is among 800 lots at RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale
Isaac Newton's manuscript on alchemy A Key to Snyders will be
Barely any correspondence between the English diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys
Phillis Wheatley’s 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
The sale of a major collection can become an almost mythic event in the book world.
Last spring, Fine Books & Collections broke the news that Colorado book collector David L. DiLaura had discovered, in his own home library, a second edition (1717) of Sir Isaac Newton’s Opticks…
As the year comes to a close, we like to look back on the stories that particularly appealed to our readers, a list that includes Bob Dylan, bookish cookies, and sea monsters — go figure!
New York – Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859) is inarguably one of the most