Assertion: newton's opticks | /r/CapableOf | develop conjecture
Facets:
value: unlike the principia
type: OTHER
value: about light
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: However, unlike the Principia, which vowed Non fingo hypotheses or "I make no hypotheses" outside the deductive method, the Opticks develops conjectures about light that go beyond the experimental evidence: for example, that the physical behaviour of light was due its "corpuscular" nature as small particles, or that perceived colours were harmonically proportioned like the tones of a diatonic musical scale.