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The Principia
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
by Isaac Newton (Author)In his monumental 1687 work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica , known familiarly as the Principia , Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern...
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Opticks
by Isaac Newton (Author)One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, Opticks comprises a comprehensive survey of 18th-century knowledge of light, describing Newton’s own experiments with spectroscopy, colors, lenses, reflection, refraction...
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Treatise on Light
by Christiaan Huygens (Author)In which are explained The causes of that which occurs In REFLEXION & in REFRACTION; And particularly In the strange REFRACTION OF ICELAND CRYSTAL; Rendered into English by SILVANUS P. THOMPSON
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- Isaac Newton (Author)
- Christiaan Huygens (Author)
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