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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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Opening of the book

OPTICKS:
OR, A
TREATISE
OF THE
Reflections, Refractions,
Inflections and Colours
OF
LIGHT.
The Fourth Edition, corrected.
By Sir ISAAC NEWTON, Knt.
LONDON:
Printed for William Innys at the West-End of St. Paul's.
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TITLE PAGE OF THE 1730 EDITION
SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S ADVERTISEMENTS
Advertisement I
Part of the ensuing Discourse about Light was written at

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Contents

  1. OPTICKS:
  2. OR, A
  3. TREATISE
  4. LIGHT.
  5. SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S ADVERTISEMENTS
  6. Advertisement I
  7. THE FIRST BOOK OF OPTICKS
  8. PART I.
  9. DEFINITIONS
  10. AXIOMS.
  11. PROPOSITIONS.
  12. THE FIRST BOOK OF OPTICKS
  13. PART II.
  14. OPTICKS
  15. PART I.
  16. OPTICKS PART II.
  17. OPTICKS
  18. OPTICKS
  19. OPTICKS
  20. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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