“It has no justification in experiment exactly; it just represents something that he’s imposing upon the color spectrum by analogy with music.” Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had ...

Goodbye to color Designers of shorter telescopes still faced the problem of chromatic aberrations, though—that is, until Isaac Newton solved it. In 1672, Newton published a seminal paper on ...

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the ... including the nature of matter, light, and color. At the same time, to better understand the texts he was reading, Newton began to study ...

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.

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...