Title: Opticks, or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections, and colours of light
Description: One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, Opticks presents a comprehensive survey of 18th-century knowledge of light. Newton describes his experiments with spectroscopy, colors, lenses, reflection, refraction, and more, in language lay readers can easily follow.
Subjects: Optics, Early works to 1800, Light, Optics and Photonics
Time periods: Early works to 1800