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Newton (Sir Isaac) Optice

Newton (Sir Isaac) Optice: sive Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis, Libri Tres,

half-title, 12 folding engraved plates, without the portrait, occasional light browning or foxing, contemporary half calf, spine in compartments and richly gilt, red morocco label, [Babson 141], slightly rubbed, a very good copy, 4to, Lausanne & Geneva, sumpt. Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, 1740.

***"A work of great authority; 'supreme' in Andrade's words." (PMM). In his Opticks, first published in 1704, Newton challenges the theory that white light is pure and simple and rather that it was made up of a compound of elementary colours which can be separated and recompounded at will..