Isaac Newton worked at the Royal Society, and the organization has kept since 1688 the original telescope that Newton himself built. Watch the video to understand a nice bit of chemistry as well.

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 ...

Via astronomer Salman Hameed at Irtiqa, this encouraging item from the Express Tribune about a young student in Okara, Pakistan, who built his own Newtonian telescope from scratch. A childhood ...

1672: Sir Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope Sketch of Newton’s telescope. Image Source: Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Digital ID: ...

An Iridium flare gleams above the dome of the Isaac Newton Telescope on the 50th anniversary of its inauguration in this photo by Miguel Claro.

A short history of Sir Isaac Newton, the mathematician and physicist that helped invent and explain some of the most fundamental laws of science. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward.

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal interpersonal skills. "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...