Then, as today, the behavior of light was investigated experimentally and mathematically Newton adopted both means, but the core of his work was the observation of the spectrum of colours (formed when a ray of light shines through a glass prism) is stretched along its axis, together with his experimental proof that rays of different colours are refracted to different extents. “Isaac Newton began his study of light and optics while an undergraduate at Cambridge, and continued it at his Lincolnshire home during the plague years 1665-6 when (he recalled) ‘I was in the prime of my age for invention’. A fresh unrestored copy.įirst edition, first issue of this landmark in science by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), here in a remarkably well preserved, unrestored example. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures.Ĥto.
Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, 1704.
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