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Opticks

Sir Isaac Newton

Narrator LibriVox Community

Publisher: LibriVox

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Summary

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to transmit forces between the corpuscles. His "Opticks", first published 1704 contains his postulates about the topic. This is the fourth edition in English, from 1730, which Newton himself had corrected from the third edition before his death. (Summary by Availle)
Duration: about 12 hours (12:13:19)
Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: 1730. Copyright Statment: —