Opticks, or, A treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light ; Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures

Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727, Smith, Samuel, fl. 1681-1703, Walford, Benjamin, d. ca. 1710, Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. Quadratura curvarum, Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. Enumeratio linearum tertii ordinis · 1704 · London : Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society ... · 28 pictures

Isaac Newton's Opticks, first edition, printed in London in 1704 for the Royal Society's booksellers and addressed to natural philosophers and mathematicians. The plates are engraved line diagrams: ray bundles through prisms and lenses, lettered construction points, dotted arcs for angles of refraction, and zigzag and curve figures from the appended treatises on curvilinear figures.

Optics · Geometry, Analytic · Curves

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