Optice; sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis libri tres

by Isaac Newton

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1706. First Latin edition of the Opticks, the extremely rare first issue with Ss1 in its original state cancelled in almost all copies . Of Newton’s three greatest contributions to science – his theory of gravity, his theories of light and colour, and the invention of calculus – the first was published for the first time in the Principia 1687 , and the

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