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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. Opticks. New York, Dover Publications [1952] (OCoLC)609442264 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Isaac Newton |
| OCLC Number: | 535546 |
| Description: | cxv, 406 p. illus., ports., facsims. 19 cm. |
| Contents: | Book one of the Opticks -- Book two of the Opticks -- Book three of the Opticks -- Queries 1-31. |
| Responsibility: | with a foreword by Albert Einstein, an introd. by Sir Edmund Whittaker, a pref. by I. Bernard Cohen, and an analytical table of contents prepared by Duane H. D. Roller. |
Abstract:
One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, Opticks presents a comprehensive survey of 18th-century knowledge of light. Newton describes his experiments with spectroscopy, colors, lenses, reflection, refraction, and more, in language lay readers can easily follow.
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