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NEWTON (Isaac). OPTICKS: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London. 1704

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NEWTON (Isaac)
OPTICKS: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures. London: Printed for San Smith, and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince’s Arms in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1704.

[ ]//2, A-S//4, Aa-Bb//4, Dd-Ss//4, Tt//1, Tt-Zz//4, Aaa-Ddd//4, Eee//2; [4], 144, 212 pp.; 19 grav.: il.; 250 mm. Ex-libris de E.N. da C. Andrade; contemporary full calf, rebound.

FIRST EDITION of Newton’s revolutionary work on light and color.

Opticks contains Newton’s account of his discoveries about light, from his first published paper in 1672 onwards, including his work on the spectrum of sunlight, the degrees of refraction associated with different colors, the color wheel, the arc- iris, ‘Newton’s rings’ and his invention of the reflecting telescope.

Very rare and valuable.

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