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Optice; sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis libri tres by NEWTON, Isaac - 1706
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Optice; sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis libri tres
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London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1706. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (240 x 190 mm). [14], 1-348, 1-24, [2] 1-24, 21-43 [1] pp. 19 folding engraved plates, Ss1 a cancel leaf as usual. Contemporary full vellum, spine with old ink lettering and remnant of leather label (vellum little soiled), red-sprinkled edges. Text and plates generally crisp and clean with very little faint spotting, a few dampstains and wormholes in lower blank margin of first 10 leaves not affecting text, some worming to endpapers and title-page, tiny wormholes in lower margin of final pages and plates. Provenance: W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge (small sticker to front pastedown). A very good copy with ample margins in untouched original binding. ----
Babson 137; Wallis 179, Norman 1589. - FIRST LATIN EDITION. The first edition of OPTICKS was printed two years earlier in English and without Newton's customary use of editorial assistance. He then employed Samuel Clarke to make a Latin translation with the addition of seven new Queries. At the end of the book are two mathematical treatises, DE QUADRATURA and ENUMERATIO LINEARUM TERTII ORDINIS, which Newton added to establish his priority over Leibniz in the invention of the calculus. Next to the PRINCIPIA, the OPTICKS stands as Newton's greatest work. Much of the a OPTICKS was written thirty years earlier and finally put into print in 1704, just a few months after Newton assumed the chair as President of the Royal Society. It summarized his discoveries and theories concerning light and color, the spectrum of sunlight, the degrees of refraction associated with different colors, the color circle, the invention of the reflecting telescope, the first workable theory of the rainbow, and interference effects in conjunction with Newton's rings. It expounds his corpuscular or emission theory of light.
Babson 137; Wallis 179, Norman 1589. - FIRST LATIN EDITION. The first edition of OPTICKS was printed two years earlier in English and without Newton's customary use of editorial assistance. He then employed Samuel Clarke to make a Latin translation with the addition of seven new Queries. At the end of the book are two mathematical treatises, DE QUADRATURA and ENUMERATIO LINEARUM TERTII ORDINIS, which Newton added to establish his priority over Leibniz in the invention of the calculus. Next to the PRINCIPIA, the OPTICKS stands as Newton's greatest work. Much of the a OPTICKS was written thirty years earlier and finally put into print in 1704, just a few months after Newton assumed the chair as President of the Royal Society. It summarized his discoveries and theories concerning light and color, the spectrum of sunlight, the degrees of refraction associated with different colors, the color circle, the invention of the reflecting telescope, the first workable theory of the rainbow, and interference effects in conjunction with Newton's rings. It expounds his corpuscular or emission theory of light.
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- Date Published 1706
- Keywords Optics, Light
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Optice: Sive De Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus Et Coloribus Lucis Libri Tres (Latin Edition)
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Optice: sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis, libri tres. Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke . . . Editio novissima.
by NEWTON, Isaac (1643-1727)
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Lausannae & Geneva,: Marci-Michaelis Bousquet & Sociorum, 1740., 1740. 4to. [iv], xxxii, 363, [1] pp. Half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait of Newton (engr. Jean-Louis Daudet after Vanderbank), 12 engraved folding plates, title vignette of 4 cherubs and a female figure, each using an optical instrument, representing learning optics/perspective (drawn by Delamoncein and engraved by Daudet), head & tail pieces and woodcut initial letters drawn by Papillon, index; first 11 leaves browned. Contemporary full vellum, green leather gilt-stamped spine label, edges with decorative red freckling as designed by the binder; foot of spine with faint ink marking "11-[??]". Paper unevenly browned. Verso of title with small ink annotation "=1135="; rear pastedown with another notation "á 20.Luglio 1801." Very good. Third Latin edition, edited by Bousquet, with a dedication to Joannes Bernoulli. This edition contains the full array of 31 querries.* / "Newton's contributions to the science of optics :: his…
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OPTICE : Sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus Lucis, Libri Tres. Latinr reddidit SAMUEL CLARKE, S.T.P.
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Gul. & Joh. Innys. London. 1719. Editio Secunda, auctior. 4to. [19.8 cms.].. pp. (i) Title, (i) blank, xi, (i) Errata, 415, (i) Catalogus Librorum. 12 folding plates, occasional text figure. There is a stub following the title; this might indicate the removal of a leaf, possibly [A2] - some copies are described as having an Advertisement leaf before the title and this is LACKING here. The front joint is tight and there is no indication of this leaf having been cut out. It appears never to have been bound in. Contemporary panelled calf, a little wear to the spine ends and some scuffing, the second leaf [A4] is coming loose, the first few leaves with a small damp-mark in the lower margin, two leaves with a small tear in the centre now carefully repaired without loss of text, the end-papers with old, light pencil drawings, otherwise a clean tight copy. *SEE Babson Newton Collection #138 [8vo edition] - 'Neither this nor the later editions contain the two mathematical treatises included in the…
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Optice: sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus & Coloribus Lucis, Libri tres. Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. Editio Secunda, auctior.
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1719. London, Impensis Gul. & Joh. Innys, 1719 (colophon: Londini: Ex Officina Gulielmi Bowyer, 1718. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Corners, fronthinge and spineends professionally repaired. Inner hinges reinforced. Gilt lineborders on back. Titlelabel in red leather with gilt lettering. Old owners name stamped on titlepage (small).Instead of htitle is bound "Catalogus Librorum prostantium apud Gul. & Joh. Innys" (1 leaf), the Cataloque is furthermore bound at end, but with a different typography. (2),XI,(1),415 pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. Very light brownning to a few margins. Printed on good paper, in general fine and clean internally. Scarce second Latin edition of Newton's "Optics: or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light. London 1704.", one of the great books in the history of science. "Newton's Optics did for Light what his Principia had done for Gravitation, namely, placed it on a scientific basis." (E.W. Brown). The translation was brought to light…
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