Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of ... because the less a lens is curved the less it acts like a prism. But this made the focal length of the objective lens—and thus the ...

One of its earlier practitioners was Sir Isaac Newton ... colours was that they were impurities added by the prism to the pure white light. Newton thought that the colours were already present ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... The Lord Chancellor, the Dukes of Montrose and Roxburgh and the Earls of Pembroke, Sussex and Macclesfield were pall bearers. The ...