Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of ... Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have now ... we read “I have myself seen the first telescope [Newton's reflecting telescope ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... His theory of optics made him reconsider the design of the telescope, which up until this point was a large, cumbersome instrument.

Human space travel won't always be the preserve of the elite but until then there are other ways to experience the dramatic ...

Isaac Newton was the first to really make it work. Newton's reflecting telescope consisted of a single curved main mirror, coupled with a smaller flat mirror positioned at the focal point and ...

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

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 ...

I spent a year working as a support astronomer at the 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands. While there I was responsible for ...