More programming details for BBC Two's Genius Of Invention season. Sir Isaac Newton is considered by many to be the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. Born with no father and abandoned by ...

But a surprising number have no idea these great inventions – and many more ... invented by Sir Isaac Newton so his cat, Spithead, could come and go as he pleased while the great man carried ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... However, the myth that Newton was hit on the head by the apple was a later invention. Image caption, The story of the falling apple ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... but his other discoveries and inventions in mathematics (e.g. the binomial theorem, differential and integral calculus), optics, ...

the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton. Those two scientific geniuses, as Sir Isaac himself acknowledged, built upon the work of others, and how they came to design their inventions ...

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study ...