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UPPSALA , Sweden, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Sweden's Uppsala University said a copy of Isaac Newton's "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" is back with the school after its theft 40 years ago.
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CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Physicist Stephen Hawking will retire his post in 2009 as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Britain's Cambridge University, the university said.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton displayed symptoms of psychiatric disorders that may have been a key to their genius, a Dublin psychiatrist said.
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MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- British scientists say a group of scholars in India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton.
LONDON, July 4 (UPI) -- A cache of letters from politicians, poets, scientists and composers recently found in a laundry room sold for more than $6 million at auction in London.
JERUSALEM, June 19 (UPI) -- A letter written by Isaac Newton that predicts the end of the world no sooner than 2060 has gone on display at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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