Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... and his coffin was followed to its grave by most of the Fellows of the Royal Society. The Lord Chancellor, the Dukes of Montrose ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.

Just by the west door in the nave of Westminster Abbey is a memorial to astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks (1617?-1641). The inscription was set into a plain piece of curved white marble on the monument to ...