Opticks (Based on the 4th Edition, London, 1730) - Or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light - Sir Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Albert Einstein, Sir Edmund Whittaker (1952) |
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One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, Opticks comprises a comprehensive survey of 18th-century knowledge of light, describing Newton's own experiments with spectroscopy, colors, lenses, reflection, refraction, and more, in language lay readers can easily follow. Foreword by Albert Einstein. |
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