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Newton's optical writings : a guided study / Dennis L. Sepper.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Masterworks of discoveryPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 224 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585034745
  • 9780585034744
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Newton's optical writings.DDC classification:
  • 535 20
LOC classification:
  • QC353 .S46 1994eb
NLM classification:
  • QC353
Other classification:
  • 33.18
  • CF 6800
  • UB 2420
  • UB 2700
  • 11
  • 30.01
  • 33.01
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Preliminaries. An introduction to Isaac Newton -- Optics in the age of Newton -- pt. 2. The early optics. Newton's first publication, the 1672 letter -- From the early theory to The opticks -- pt. 3. The opticks. The opticks, book I, part I -- The opticks, book I, part II -- The opticks, book II, parts I and II -- The opticks, book II, parts III and IV -- The opticks, book III -- pt. 4. After the opticks. The aftermath of the optics of Newton -- Appendix A. Impulse and wave theories of light -- Appendix B. Estimating air thickness for the colored rings -- Appendix C. Rays in force fields -- Appendix D. The changing speed of rotating spheres.
Summary: Masterworks of Discovery: Guided Studies of Great Texts in Science.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.

pt. 1. Preliminaries. An introduction to Isaac Newton -- Optics in the age of Newton -- pt. 2. The early optics. Newton's first publication, the 1672 letter -- From the early theory to The opticks -- pt. 3. The opticks. The opticks, book I, part I -- The opticks, book I, part II -- The opticks, book II, parts I and II -- The opticks, book II, parts III and IV -- The opticks, book III -- pt. 4. After the opticks. The aftermath of the optics of Newton -- Appendix A. Impulse and wave theories of light -- Appendix B. Estimating air thickness for the colored rings -- Appendix C. Rays in force fields -- Appendix D. The changing speed of rotating spheres.

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Masterworks of Discovery: Guided Studies of Great Texts in Science.

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