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Newton's Opticks
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Isaac Newton: Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections,
Refractions, Inflections and Colours of
Light. London: William Innys 1730. 4th edition.
Illustrated with 12 folding engraved plates. With
foxing and dampstaining to several leaves. Names
and library stamp on flyleaf. Bound in full calf.
Inner hinges worn. Binding with signs of wear.
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The final edition of Newton's groundbreaking work
on the physics of light to be corrected and revised by
Isaac Newton himself. "The first edition contained
Newton's first mathematical papers in print [...] and
in the later editions it was embellished with a set of
Queries long supposed to represent Newton's opinions
on the chief mysteries of Nature." (Printing and
the Mind of Man # 172).
Provenance: The library of Frederiksborg Gymnasium
in Hillerød.
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