Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 2, the Opticks 1704 and - Related Papers Ca.1688171

List of contents

List of plates; List of tables; Preface; Editorial note; Abbreviated references; 1. Introduction; 2. First edition of the Opticks; 3. Fundamentum Opticae (The Foundation of Optics); 4. Additions to Optice; 5. Queries 17-31 for the second English edition of the Opticks (1717); Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Alan E. Shapiro has written widely on the history of optics, and on Isaac Newton. He is the author of Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection (Cambridge, 1993). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as President of the International Academy of the History of Science.

Product details

• Authors: Isaac Newton, Newton Isaac
• Assisted by: Alan E. Shapiro (Editor), Alan E. (University of Minnesota) Shapiro (Editor), Shapiro Alan E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2021
• EAN: 9780521302180
• ISBN: 978-0-521-30218-0
• No. of pages: 442
• Series: Optical Papers of Isaac Newton
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / History, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology