“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 ...

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 was one ... and René Descartes. Newton began to question the environment around him, including the nature of matter, light, and color. At the same time, to better understand the ...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was ... A popular story claims that Newton was inspired to formulate his theory of universal gravitation ...