Two of the 1600s’ greatest minds helped build modern science, but their rivalry became a fight over credit, status, and control of the Royal Society. Newton used his power to dominate disputes like ...

While at the University of Cambridge, Newton developed his theory of gravity and the three laws of motion. In his own words, “A man can imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things ...

Britain’s oldest provincial learned society, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, is launching two new exhibitions at the town’s ...

THOUGH the first edition of this work was published more than fifty years ago, in 1891, it still has value as a standard work on the adjustment and testing of telescope objectives. The firm of Sir ...

SOME striking new interference phenomena have been found with Newton's rings by using multiple-beam interference instead of the usual two beams. The rings, formed between a convex lens and a flat ...