But a surprising number have no idea these great inventions – and many more ... allegedly, invented by Sir Isaac Newton so his cat, Spithead, could come and go as he pleased while the ...

More programming details for BBC Two's Genius Of Invention season. Sir Isaac Newton is considered by many to be the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. Born with no father and abandoned by ...

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study ...

Newton wrote parts of this private journal in a secret code, which historians only cracked in the 1960sOne of history's greatest minds, Sir Isaac Newton's 'discovery' of gravity established him as ...

the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton. Those two scientific geniuses, as Sir Isaac himself acknowledged, built upon the work of others, and how they came to design their inventions ...

DOM:To the stars and the moon in the sky. DICK:Ladies and gents we give you, the man who discovered how gravity works - Sir Isaac Newton. SIR ISAAC NEWTON:Oh get me down! DOM:Alright then.

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...

Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his System of the World. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. in 1729. The translations revised, and supplied with an ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire on Christmas Day 1642, only son of Isaac, a farmer, and his wife Hannah (Ayscough). His father died before his birth ...