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by Sir Isaac Newton


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Recommended to all scientists. -- Journal of Royal Naval Scientific Service
The publishers do us a service by issuing this reprint. -- The Institute of Physics
An underpinning for the entire edifice of physics. -- Scientific American
A comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century knowledge about all aspects of light, Opticks also offers countless scientific insights by its distinguished author. One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, this volume will impress readers with its surprisingly modern perspectives.
In language that lay readers can easily follow, Sir Isaac Newton describes his famous experiments with spectroscopy and colors, lenses, and the reflection and diffraction of light. Book I contains his fundamental experiments with the spectrum, Book II deals with the ring phenomena, and Book III covers diffraction. The work concludes with Queries -- speculations concerning light and gravitation. Opticks is introduced with a Foreword by Albert Einstein.

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  • Title Opticks
  • Author Sir Isaac Newton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Us Edition
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications, New York
  • Date June 1, 1952
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780486602059 / 0486602052
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.4 x 1.05 in (20.27 x 13.72 x 2.67 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Optics - Early works to 1800
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018469772
  • Dewey Decimal Code 534

About the author

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1726) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His 1687 monograph, Philosophia Naturalis Principia, lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics.
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