Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light - Softcover

Newton Sir, Sir Isaac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602065063 ISBN 13: 9781602065062

Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 2007

Synopsis

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1730 Original Publisher: Printed for W. Innys Subjects: Optics Light Juvenile Nonfiction / Science

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Sir Isaac Newton begins the Opticks, his 1704 study of the nature of light and color, by outlining its purpose: "My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments." The Opticks is largely a record of these experiments and the deductions made from them, rather than a series of equations, and as a result, it was to prove heavily influential among lay readers, who found it easier to follow than its predecessor, the dense and heavily mathematic Principia.

Yet while the Principia may be regarded as Newton's magnum opus, the Opticks on its own would have been enough to earn him a reputation as a scientist for the ages. Though the field has advanced in the many years since, the Opticks remains essential reading for the scientific historian and budding physical scientist.

About the Author:

English physicist and mathematician SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727) is widely regarded to be the foremost figure in the history of science. Among his numerous contributions to science and mathematics, he is credited with the development of calculus, but is perhaps best known for discovering the universality of gravitation after witnessing a falling apple.

His most famous work is Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1602065063
• ISBN 13: 9781602065062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416