IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1667, then a young Fellow at ...

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 ...

This is incredibly cool. 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 ...

The standard telescope of Newton's time, the refracting telescope, was not ideal. Its glass lenses focused the different colors inherent in light at different distances. This resulted, at the edges of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Miguel Claro is a Lisbon, Portugal-based professional photographer, author and science ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have now found a permanent resting place in the Museum of Treviso. The prisms in question were originally in ...