... on the ways of science through out history. He had reached the conclusion during the two plague years that white light is not a simple entity. Every scientist since Aristotle had believed that white light was a basic single entity, but the chromatic aberration in a telescope lens convinced Newton to believe different. When he passed a thin beam of sunlight through a glass prism Newton noted the ... Professor was on optics and this was the topic of his first course as a professor which begun in January of 1670. In 1672 Newton was elected to the Royal Society after donating a reflecting t...

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... two years Newton was tremendously productive. He made many discoveries that included calculus, a mathematical way of calculating rates of change, properties of light and color; and the law of universal gravitation, the force that holds the moon and the planets in place. After graduating, Newton taught at Cambridge for eighteen years. During his first years Newton lectured on optics, the study of ... and devoted his life to mathematics and astronomy. One day when Galileo went to the university chapel to pray, he watched as the lamplighter carefully pulled the chandelier aside to light th...

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