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 Isaac Newton

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First edition

4to. 24.2 x 18.8 cm , 2 ff., 144 pp., 211 pp, 1 pp., with 19 folding engraved plates. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf. A fresh unrestored copy. First edition, first issue of this landmark in science by Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 , here in a remarkably well preserved, unrestored example. “Isaac Newton began his study of light and optics while an undergraduate at Cambridge, and continued it at his Lincolnshire home

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