In this extract from the new book Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science, science writer Philip Ball explains how Isaac Newton transformed our understanding of light.

Isaac Newton's personal copy of the 1717 second edition of Opticks, long thought lost, has been found. Credit: Peter Harrington Rare Books ...

Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus and ... He found that as two bodies move farther away ... the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has ...

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 ...

Sir Isaac Newton -- best known for his exploits in science and math -- was also a Christian who put his analytical mind to ...

Author Edward Dolnick brought to light a few lesser known examples of Newton's assholery in his enjoyably enlightening book, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of ...

Sir Isaac caveated his prophecy: “It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. “This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash ...