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NEWTON, Isaac. Opticks: or, a Treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light, London: for W. and J. Innys, 1718. 8, 12 folding engraved plates, woodcut headpieces and initials, one leaf of advertisments at end (printing flaw to F1 affecting 6 lines of text without loss, margins lightly browned, some light spotting), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked and recornered, rubbed). Provenance: signature of John Dixon on title, dated 1810.
Second edition, second issue of "one of the great classics of optics ... The phenomenon of the rainbow, first propounded by De Dominis in 1611, and later by Descartes, is here fully explained, as well as 'Newton's Rings' and other optical matters. 'Newton's Optics' did for light what his Principia had done for gravitation, namely, placed it on scientific basis.' - Prof. E. W. Brown of Yale University." (Babson). Babson 134; Wallis 176.
Second edition, second issue of "one of the great classics of optics ... The phenomenon of the rainbow, first propounded by De Dominis in 1611, and later by Descartes, is here fully explained, as well as 'Newton's Rings' and other optical matters. 'Newton's Optics' did for light what his Principia had done for gravitation, namely, placed it on scientific basis.' - Prof. E. W. Brown of Yale University." (Babson). Babson 134; Wallis 176.