Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

first publication date:  1704
original title:  Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
original language:  English
main subject:  optics

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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