"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...

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 ...

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” Isaac Newton wrote in 1675 to polymath Robert Hooke. That expression is often used to explain progress: inventors and ...

Sir Isaac Newton letter from 1704 predicts when world will end – and it’s not far away - As well as formulating the laws of gravity, Sir Isaac Newton was a theologian ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have ... 129) we read “I have myself seen the first telescope [Newton's reflecting telescope ...