Opticks

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704 (a scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706). The book analyzes 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 behaviour of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Opticks was Newton's second major book on physical science and it is considered one of the three major works on optics during the Scientific Revolution (alongside Kepler's Astronomiae Pars Optica and Huygens' Traité de la Lumière). Newton's name did not appear on the title page of the first edition of Opticks.

Opticks
The first, 1704, edition of Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light.
AuthorIsaac Newton
CountryGreat Britain
LanguageEnglish
SubjectOptics
GenreNon-fiction
Publication date
1704
Media typePrint
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