Isaac Newton: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Physicists)

by Hourly History

There was always a challenge to behold. Newton was, and is, regarded as the chief architect of the modern world.

If matter thus draws matter, it must be in proportion of its quantity. Therefore the apple draws the earth, as well as the earth draws the apple.”

Aristotle also believed that light is changed into color by mixing with the darkness that is caused by interactions with matter. Newton proposed just the opposite: light is composed of spectral hues, all different and all colors. He also stated that color is a sensation within the mind. It is not a property found within the material itself.

Principia “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” —Isaac Newton

“Mortals rejoice that there has existed so great an ornament of the human race!”