| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 224 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Masterworks of discovery |
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Masterworks of discovery.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Preliminaries. An introduction to Isaac Newton -- Optics in the age of Newton -- part 2. The early optics. Newton's first publication, the 1672 letter -- From the early theory to The opticks -- part 3. The opticks. The opticks, book I, part I -- The opticks, book I, part II -- The opticks, book II, parts I and II -- The opticks, book II, parts III and IV -- The opticks, book III -- part 4. After the opticks. The aftermath of the optics of Newton -- Appendix A. Impulse and wave theories of light -- Appendix B. Estimating air thickness for the colored rings -- Appendix C. Rays in force fields -- Appendix D. The changing speed of rotating spheres. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Optics -- Early works to 1800.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Optics & Light.
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Optics. (OCoLC)fst01046845
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| Genre/Form |
Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sepper, Dennis L. Newton's optical writings. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1994 0813520371 (DLC) 93026703 (OCoLC)28423011 |
| ISBN |
0585034745 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585034744 (electronic bk.) |
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