NEWTON, ISAAC. Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, 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 1704. 4to, contemporary panelled calf, joints and ends of spine renewed, joints broken and upper cover detached, corners worn, some spotting, mostly at front, a few minor stains at extreme edges of margins. FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 19 folding engraved diagrams. Burndy/Dibner 148; Grolier/Horblit 79b; PMM *172 ("...the core of his work was the observation that the spectrum of colours...is stretched along its axis, together with his experimental proof that rays of different colors are refracted to different extents.")

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NEWTON, ISAAC. Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, 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 1704. 4to, contemporary panelled calf, joints and ends of spine renewed, joints broken and upper cover detached, corners worn, some spotting, mostly at front, a few minor stains at extreme edges of margins. FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 19 folding engraved diagrams. Burndy/Dibner 148; Grolier/Horblit 79b; PMM *172 ("...the core of his work was the observation that the spectrum of colours...is stretched along its axis, together with his experimental proof that rays of different colors are refracted to different extents.")

Provenance: Sir Robert Harry Inglis (1786-1855 -- "an old-fashioned tory, a strong churchman, with many prejudices and of no great ability"--see DNB), ink-stamp on verso of title; Los Angeles County Medical Association.