The house where Newton grew up. Medieval clerics studied light and the
rainbow as manifestations of divine illumination. Newton too felt there
was something supernatural in light. But when he tried to explain the
colors in terms of mechanical particles, he pointed toward a different
view of the universe.
Credit:
Photograph by Roy Bishop, Acadia University, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre
Visual Archives (Catalog #: Newton Isaac H1)
