Lectiones opticae annis MDCLXIX, MDCLXIX, MDCLXX & MDCLXXI. In scholis publicis habitae: et nunce primum ex MSS. In lucem editae

by Sir Isaac Newton

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First edition

London: William Innys for the Royal Society, 1729. First edition of the complete text, in the original Latin, of Newton’s inaugural lectures as the second Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, and the first publication of his lectures on his new mathematical science of colour, including his discovery of the compound nature of white light. It was from this material that Newton composed his Opticks of

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