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NEWTON, ISAAC. Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford 1704.
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NEWTON, ISAAC. Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford 1704.
4to, 239 x 184mm. (9 7/16 x 7 1/4in.), modern brown crushed morocco, blind panelled in antique style, spine gilt in six compartments with red morocco gilt-lettered label, tear in plate IV of Book I, Part II, another plate just shaved by the binder. Modern brown quarter calf box.
FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 19 folding engraved plates.
Babson/Macomber 132; Buffalo/Sparrow 150; Dibner Heralds of Science 148; Grolier/Horblit 79b; PMM 172.
"This work includes assertions of the priority of Newton over Leibnitz in the discovery of the calculus, explanations of optical phenomena such as the rainbow, 'Newton rings', the double refraction of Icelandic spar, and important 'Queries' as to the nature of matter."--Grolier/Horblit.
Provenance: "William Harris, August 1790, 2s. 6d.", ink inscription on upper free endpage.
4to, 239 x 184mm. (9 7/16 x 7 1/4in.), modern brown crushed morocco, blind panelled in antique style, spine gilt in six compartments with red morocco gilt-lettered label, tear in plate IV of Book I, Part II, another plate just shaved by the binder. Modern brown quarter calf box.
FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 19 folding engraved plates.
Babson/Macomber 132; Buffalo/Sparrow 150; Dibner Heralds of Science 148; Grolier/Horblit 79b; PMM 172.
"This work includes assertions of the priority of Newton over Leibnitz in the discovery of the calculus, explanations of optical phenomena such as the rainbow, 'Newton rings', the double refraction of Icelandic spar, and important 'Queries' as to the nature of matter."--Grolier/Horblit.
Provenance: "William Harris, August 1790, 2s. 6d.", ink inscription on upper free endpage.