Isaac Newton

The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 2, The Opticks (1704) and Related Papers ca.1688-1717

Herausgeber: Shapiro, Alan E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shapiro documents, through its three principal published editions, the evolution of Newton's Opticks - the most influential optical and experimental work of the eighteenth century - together with related material, including the queries. It is an essential resource for historians and philosophers of science, as well as historians of philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Optical Papers of Isaac Newton
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 187mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1086g
• ISBN-13: 9780521302180
• ISBN-10: 0521302188
• Artikelnr.: 60549990

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
List of tables
Preface
Editorial note
Abbreviated references
1. Introduction
2. First edition of the Opticks
3. Fundamentum Opticae (The Foundation of Optics)
4. Additions to Optice
5. Queries 17-31 for the second English edition of the Opticks (1717)
Bibliography
Index.