These replicas, made in 1923 and 1924, are of telescopes invented by Galileo in c 1609 and Sir Isaac Newton in 1668. Galileo’s telescope (right) uses lenses to magnify about 21 times but gives ...

Sir Isaac Newton made several experiments with a view to the improvement of refracting telescopes, but came to the conclusion that it was impossible to get rid of the chromatic aberration produced ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings to walk the face of the Earth. On this day, in 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was born. He would be 371. Newton was a physicist ...

Renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end in a letter dating back more than 300 years ago. A letter from the famous mathematician and physicist - who was best known ...

The copy of Isaac Newton 's seminal treatise Opticks that he had purchased some 20 years before turned out to be from Newton's own personal library, believed lost for many decades.

A piece of the apple tree that helped British scientist Sir Isaac Newton explain the tug of Earth's gravity and laws of motion in the 17th century is about to escape that gravitational pull when ...

A WORLD-ending apocalypse will take place 35 years - according to a resurfaced letter by revolutionary scientist Sir Isaac Newton. The ominous prediction, made by the groundbreaking genius best ...

SIR HAROLD SPENGER JONES, Astronomer Royal, has recently spent three months in the United States, at theinvitation ofmany American astronomers, in course whichhe visited most of the astronomical ...

Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he penned in 1704.

The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes is completing a strategic change for the scientific use of its two telescopes, the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) and the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope ...

When light passes through glass, it is separated into color bands (ROYGBIV), which meant that refracting telescopes suffered from chromatic aberrations that affected image quality. Seeking to overcome ...

Renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end in a letter dating back more than 300 years ago. A letter from the famous mathematician and physicist - who was best known ...