Reissuing Isaac Newton’s Opticks

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Our reissue of Newton’s second major book and one of the great works in the history of science; in a modern editorial design. - The BookOur understanding of light and color begins with Isaac Newton. In the 1660s he began a series of experiments analyzing the nature of light - passing it through prism lenses demonstrating that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors (or hues): red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.Credit: Apic Hulton Archive / Getty ImagesAfter more than 30 years of experiments, tests and discoveries, he released Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Ref ...

Read More lexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light in 1704. Written in English and in a simpler form, it was made more accessible to a wider audience (in comparison to Principia), but without affecting its influence over physical science.The first, 1704, edition of OpticksIt is considered one of the great

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