Law of Motion

Rare Isaac Newton ‘Laws of Motion’ manuscript discovered in French library

Rare Isaac Newton ‘Laws of Motion’ manuscript discovered in French library

A first-edition copy of Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking book laying out his three laws of motion, which became the foundation for modern physics, has been found at a library on the French island of Corsica. Vannina Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff, director of conservation at the Fesch public heritage library in Ajaccio, said she discovered the copy of the 17th-century […]