To avoid being engaged in Disputes about these Matters, I have hitherto delayed the printing, and should still have delayed it, had not the Importunity of Friends prevailed upon me.
Part of the ensuing Discourse about Light was written at the Desire of some Gentlemen of the Royal-Society, in the Year 1675, and then sent to their Secretary, and read at their Meetings, and the rest was added about twelve Years after to complete the Theory except the third Book, and the last Proposition of the Second, which were since put together out of scatter’d Papers. Printed for William Innys at the West-End of St. OPTICKS: OR, A TREATISE OF THE Reflections, Refractions, *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OPTICKS *** Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, steve harris, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title: Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light The Project Gutenberg EBook of Opticks, by Isaac Newton: This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. On one person he combined the experimenter, the theorist, the mechanic and, not least, the artist in exposition. The conceptions which he used to reduce the material of existence to order seemed to flow spontaneously from experience itself, from the beautiful experiments which he ranged in order like playthings and describes with an affectionate wealth of detail. Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort. Einstein’s Forward to Opticks, 1931įortunate Newton, happy childhood of science! He who has time and tranquility can by reading this book live again the wonderful events which the great Newton experienced in his young days. Opticks was Newton’s second major book on physical science. It is considered one of the great works of science in history. (A scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706.) The book analyses the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behavior of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Opticks is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704. Newton describes his experiments with spectroscopy, colors, lenses, reflection, refraction, and more, in language lay readers can easily follow. You are here: Home > Isaac Newton Writings > Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton Summary One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, Opticks presents a comprehensive survey of 18th-century knowledge of light.
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