... 's farm. "At school he showed some learning and mechanical skills; being able to learn is a skill as much as the latter, which were required later with his experiments with light and also when he constructed the first reflecting telescope (Berlinski 19)." Like John Harrison he found it necessary to make everything himself. Today we rarely have to make anything ourselves ... the birth of science as we understand it today. Sir Isaac Newton had many discoveries through out his lifetime. Some of his more popular experiments involved; The "Crucial Experiment" with light which was dispersed th...

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... to discover a book on astrology, but couldn't understand it very well on account of the geometry and trigonometry. He therefore bought a book by Euclid, and learned very quickly how obvious the propositions seemed. Later he read and mastered Oughtred's Clavis, and Descartes' Geometry, which led ... the subject of his first research topic. Newton discovered the decomposition of white light into rays of different colored light by means of a prism Newton invented the method for determining the coefficients of refraction of different bodies. This is done by making a ray pass through a prism,...

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