When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of ...

Of his rainbow experiment Newton wrote that he had projected white light through a prism onto a wall and had a friend mark the boundaries between the colors, which Newton then named. In his diagrams, ...

In 1672, Newton published a seminal paper on light and color, in which he showed that white light is a mixture of all colors of the spectrum. When white light passes through a curved lens it ...

This gave Newton the courage to tell them what he described as a ‘crucial experiment’ about light and colours. The Royal Society met at Crane Court. It was a newly formed organisation for men ...

Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study of the natural world, discovering the laws of gravity and motion, analyzing light, and developing the ...

Newton is most commonly known for his conception of the law of universal gravitation, but his other discoveries and inventions in mathematics (e.g. the binomial theorem, differential and integral ...

Newton was also the first to understand the rainbow, and to refract white light with a prism into its component colours and back again into white light, establishing rigid experimental proof in ...

The question was why. The common explanation for the appearance of the colours was that they were impurities added by the prism to the pure white light. Newton thought that the colours were ...

A Cambridge company has proposed a light rail route for the city - named after the mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac ...