From young Mozart to black holes, 350 years of the Royal Society go online

Britain's academy of the sciences marks anniversary with online archive including letters from Newton and Captain CookIsaac Newton held a clear glass prism to the sunbeam that penetrated the shutters of his darkened room and watched in awe as the wall of his office danced with all the colours of the rainbow.The 28-year-old physicist at Trinity College, Cambridge, was the first to show that white light is a blend of primary colours, a discovery that explains why grass is green and the sky is blue...

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