Opticks: Or Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light - Softcover

Sir Isaac Newton

 
9780486602059: Opticks: Or Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light

Synopsis

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. Based upon the fourth edition, published in 1730. Foreword by Albert Einstein.

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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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