Isaac Newton's personal copy of the 1717 second edition of Opticks, long thought lost, has been found. ... but he also had a longstanding interest in optics. For instance, ...

Isaac Newton is renowned for renovating the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century.. What you may not know is that the famed British mathematician also aimed to overturn ...

Newton’s illuminating treatise analyzes the fundamental nature of light and is considered one of the Scientific Revolution’s three major works on optics. The long-lost copy was discovered by ...

Ultrafast laser pioneer Paul Corkum has won the London-based Institute of Physics’ (IOP) highest accolade, the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, for 2018.. The University of Ottawa, Canada, professor - ...

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 ...

TeraView, the Cambridge, UK-based company that has pioneered terahertz technology and solutions, has announced that Professor Sir Michael Pepper, its co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, has been ...

Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (known by its shortened Latin name, the Principia) is a massive, three-volume 17th-century treatise that is one of the most influential ...