... the top of his class. Newton was extremely creative and showed great skill in devising clever mechanical models and in conducting experiments. His designed a windmill that pumped water, a wooden clock powered by water, and a miniature mill to grind wheat into flour using live harnessed mice to turn ... lectured on optics, the study of light and vision and how white light can be broken down into colors using a prism. He built telescopes and explained how the giant lenses worked. In 1687, Newton published his first volume of his mathematical collection called the Principia, recognized ......

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