Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures. - Softcover

Newton Sir, Sir Isaac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1140945483 ISBN 13: 9781140945482

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010

Synopsis

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British Library

T082019

Preface signed: I. N, i.e. Sir Isaac Newton. Titlepage in red and black.

London : printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, 1704. [4],144;136p.,137-138 leaves,139-211,[1]p.,plates ; 4°

About this title

About the Author:

I. Bernard Cohen (1914-2003) was Victor S. Thomas Professor (Emeritus) of the History of Science at Harvard University. Among his recent books are "Benjamin Franklin's Science" (1996), "Interactions" (1994), and "Science and the Founding Fathers" (1992). Anne Whitman was coeditor (with I. Bernard Cohen and Alexander Koyre) of the Latin edition, with variant readings, of the "Principia" (1972). Julia Budenz, author of "From the Gardens of Flora Baum" (1984), is a multilingual classicist and poet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1140945483
• ISBN 13: 9781140945482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386