Sir Isaac Newton once wrote ... This was the first working reflecting telescope. Other designers proved unable to grind mirrors with a regular curvature, so the reflector remained largely a ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius ... still widely used today. Newtonian telescopes use a reflecting mirror to avoid the colour distortion and rainbow effect ...