Sir Isaac Newton once wrote ... "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the ... His study and understanding of light, the invention of the reflecting telescope (1668), and his revelation in his Principia of the mathematical ordering ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and ... of his experiments with light was the Newtonian telescope, still widely used today. Newtonian telescopes use a reflecting ...