OPTICE: SIVE DE REFLEXIONIBUS, REFRACTIONIBUS, INFLEXIONIBUS ET COLORIBUS LUCAS, LIBRI TRES. LATINE REDDIDIT SAMUEL CLARKE, EDITION NOVISSIMA. by NEWTON, ISAAC - 1740

Lausanne & Geneve.: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, 1740. All edges stained red. Spine labelled near top. Half-title page present. Portrait frontispiece. Title-page with vignette printed in red and black. Errata page at end of text. Engraved head and tail pieces. Illuminated first letters of sections. Front free endpaper has missing piece at top corner. Endpaper are browned. Very faint suggestion of erasure at top of title-page. Wide margins and clean text throughout. Old water-staining to bottom of first 30 pages (See photo). Twelve fold-out plates, all intact and clean. This treatise on optics was first published in English in 1704, the first Latin edition published in 1706. Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, philosopher, and theologian. He is most well-known for his "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" published in 1687, laying the ground work for most classical mechanics. He built the first practical reflecting telescope, and he developed a theory of color based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into many colors that form the visible light spectrum. He expanded on these theories in "Opticks". We find 20 libraries worldwide holding the book. ABPC shows a total of 7 copies sold at auction in the past 32 years. [ii, half-title, blank, frontispiece and title-page, xxxii, 1-363, errata, 12 folding plates, ii]. Collated complete 10 May 2011. See "Printing And The Mind Of Man", 172.. New Edition.. Full Vellum. Moderate General Soiling.. Quarto.