Opticks

Isaac Newton

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 238 pages

Opticks by Isaac Newton is a treatise on light, its reflections, refractions, inflections, and colours. Drawn from experiments and observations, it sets out Newton's thinking on the nature of light and optical phenomena. It is worth listening to as a classic of scientific inquiry that joins careful observation with theoretical explanation.

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