Isaac Newton

Images & Videos

Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation

A close up image of a digital color-picker, showing shades of greens, yellows, reds, pinks, and blues.

Title page of Isaac Newton's book Opticks, featuring large decorative text and subtitles about the study of light, with publication information at the bottom.

A diagram of Newton's prism experiment shows a beam of white sunlight entering a glass prism and emerging as a spread of colors labeled red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Four circular glass test surfaces display different interference patterns: parallel straight bands, concentric Newton's rings, curved fringes, and irregular contour lines, illustrating variations in surface shape and contact.

Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton seated in formal 17th-century attire, with long hair and a composed expression, by John Vanderbank.

At a Glance

Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton summary

Illustration of a stone farmhouse with a thatched roof and several windows, surrounded by trees and farmland, in Woolsthorpe, England, birthplace of Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton Timeline

Engraved portrait of Sir Isaac Newton from 1856, showing him seated with long curly hair, wearing a brown coat and white cravat, gazing to the side.

Isaac Newton’s Achievements

Newton's rings

Understanding Newton’s Laws of Motion

Isaac Newton: Quotes

Vision
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.Isaac Newton