Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures

by Sir Isaac Newton

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First edition

London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1704. First edition, first issue of this foundational work in the field of optics, in which Isaac Newton explores the nature of light and color, presenting his experiments and theories on how light behaves. Title printed in red and black, within a double-rule border and without author's name. Bound

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