Newton himself tried to apply the program in optics, on the hypothesis that light consisted of inert corpuscles. The optics of the undulatory theory also made use of Newton's law of motion ...

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... For example, rather than trust texts on optics, he experimented by sticking a bodkin – a blunt needle – in his eye to see its ...

Isaac Newton was born on January 4 ... In 1669, he followed his teacher and was promoted to professor of mathematics and optics. Later he became interested in alchemy. For more than 40 years ...

The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire in ... famous for his revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, optics, physics and astronomy. His book Principia, published ...

ISAAC NEWTON: Yo, yo, yo, I'm Isaac Newton and the ... My laws of motion and my theories on optics and the eye. [sniggers] Okay, it might not be for another twenty years, but uh do watch this ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... differential and integral calculus), optics, mechanics, and astronomy place him at the very forefront of all scientists. His ...