02005cam a2200349Ia 4500 opticksortreatis00newt CaSfIA 20240614150522.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 750220s1704 enkafc o 000 0 eng u 46039060 (OCoLC)1050258272 MDY m.c. CLU CaSfIA QC353 .N556 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures. London : Printed for Sam Smith, and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the prince's Arms in St. paul's Church-yard, 1704. 1 online resource ([4], 144, 211 (i.e. 213), [1] pages [19] fold. leaves of plates : illustrations) Title page printed in black and red. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, A-S, Aa-Bb, Dd-Ss, T, 1 leaf unsigned, Tt,, Uu-Zz, Aaa-Ddd, Eee². In second sequence p. 120 is misnumbered 112; blank p. on verso of 137 and 138 (i.e., 139); numbering commences at 139 (i.e. 141). "Part of the ensuing discourse about light was written at the dersire of some gentlemen of the Royal society, in the year 1675. and ... read at their meetings, and the rest was added about twelve years after to complete the theory; except the third book, and the last proposition of the second, which were since put together out of scattered papers."--Advertisement, typesigned "I.N." Bound in old paneled calf. Biomed's Rare (Beigelman) copy: Inkstamp of the Portsmouth Literary & Philosophical Society, on title page. Optics Early works to 1800. Optics. https://archive.org/details/opticksortreatis00newt Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6508370M Additional information and access via Open Library opticksortreatis00newt ark:/13960/t23b6b91n