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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 and more in language the lay person can easily... read more

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BY the Rays of Light I understand its least Parts, and those as well Successive in the same Lines, as Contemporary in several Lines.

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  1. Isaac Newton (Author)

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