Opticks

by Sir Isaac Newton Narrated by LibriVox Community

Overview

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)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169361964
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014
Sales rank:	937,429

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