OpticksFirst published in the year 1704, Sir Isaac Newton's book 'Opticks' analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behaviour of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. |
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Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ... Sir Isaac Newton Visualizzazione completa - 1721 |
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Æther Angle of Incidence appear Aqua fortis arithmetical Means arithmetical Progression Attraction Axis beam of Light blue Bodies breadth Bubbles Circles colour'd compounded convex copiously Crystal dark degrees of Refrangibility density Diameter different Refrangibility dilated distance easy Reflexion easy Transmission edges emerge equal Experiment faint fall farther Fits of easy Fringes greater green hole homogeneal Light illuminated Image PT Inch indigo Knives least refrangible Rays length Lens less Medium middle mix'd Mixture Motion Numbers Objectglasses obliquely Observations Oil of Vitriol Opticks orange Orpiment parallel Particles pass perpendicular Phænomena placed Plane Prop propagated Proportion Proposition Quicksilver Rays of Light Rectilinear Sides reflected Light Rings of Colours Salt Salt of Tartar second Prism Sensorium Shadow Sine of Incidence Sine of Refraction sorts of Rays Spectrum PT Speculum Substances Sun's Light thence thickness thin Plates third transmitted transparent unusual Refraction violet Water yellow
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Opticks |
| Autore | Sir Isaac Newton |
| Editore | Prabhat Prakashan |
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