Opticks : or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections & colours of light ; based on the fourth edition, London, 1730
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Author
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Contributors
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955, writer for foreword.
Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003, writer of preface.
Roller, Duane H. D. 1920-1994, contribitor.
Published
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2012.
Format
Book
Edition
Dover edition.
ISBN
9780486602059, 0486602052
Physical Desc
cxxii, 406 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 21 cm.
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Published
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2012.
Edition
Dover edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780486602059, 0486602052

Notes

General Note
This Dover edition originally published in 1979.
General Note
"This Dover edition, first published in 1952, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by G. Bell and Sons Ltd., in 1931. New to this edition are a Preface by I. Bernard Cohen (revised in 1979) and an Analytical Table of Contents prepared by Duane H.D. Roller. This work is reprinted by special arrangement with G. Bell and Sons, Ltd." -- T.p. verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages xlviii-lvii).
Description
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.

Subjects

LC Subjects
Light.
Optics -- Early works to 1800.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Refraction.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Newton, I., Einstein, A., Cohen, I. B., & Roller, D. H. D. 1. (2012). Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections & colours of light ; based on the fourth edition, London, 1730 (Dover edition.). Dover Publications.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Isaac Newton et al.. 2012. Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light ; Based On the Fourth Edition, London, 1730. Dover Publications.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Isaac Newton et al.. Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light ; Based On the Fourth Edition, London, 1730 Dover Publications, 2012.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Newton, Isaac, Albert Einstein, I. Bernard Cohen, and Duane H. D. 1920-1994 Roller. Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light ; Based On the Fourth Edition, London, 1730 Dover edition., Dover Publications, 2012.

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