The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 2, The Opticks (1704) and Related Papers ca.1688–1717

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Isaac Newton

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Hardback

Series:

Optical Papers of Isaac Newton

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Newton's Opticks is the most influential optical and experimental work of the eighteenth century. This final volume of The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton contains manuscripts that document the evolution of the Opticks through its three principal published editions. It shows how Newton constructed the book that for over a century was the leading treatise on optics, a fecund source of natural philosophical speculations, and which is now considered a classic of science. The volume opens with the manuscript of the first edition (1704) and the first draft of the Opticks in Latin, which he soon abandoned for English. This is followed by the manuscripts of the queries that Newton added to the Latin translation in 1706 and the second English edition in 1717. Other, shorter manuscripts are included, as are copious notes and commentary, making this a valuable resource for historians and philosophers of science, and historians of philosophy.

Author Biography:

Alan E. Shapiro has written widely on the history of optics, and on Isaac Newton. He is the author of Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection (Cambridge, 1993). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as President of the International Academy of the History of Science.

Release date NZ

February 25th, 2021

Author

Isaac Newton

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Alan E. Shapiro

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises; 6 Tables, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 92 Line drawings, black and white

Pages

442

Series

Optical Papers of Isaac Newton

Dimensions

184x261x25

ISBN-13

9780521302180

Product ID

33906187

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