Assertion: newton's opticks | /r/HasProperty | rejected on the continent
Facets:
value: by many natural philosophers
type: OTHER
value: in france
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: On the Continent, and in France in particular, both the Principia and the Opticks were initially rejected by many natural philosophers, who continued to defend Cartesian natural philosophy and the Aristotelian version of color, and claimed to find Newton's prism experiments difficult to replicate.