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Title: Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730 by Sir Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Albert Einstein, Sir Edmund Whittaker ISBN: 0-486-60205-2 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1952 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: "tres curieux"
Comment: "Though Mr. Newton is no physicist, his book is very interesting." -- Father Nicolas Malebranche (1707)
Rating: 3
Summary: Difficult to read, but interesting from a historical p.o.v.
Comment: Having done a Ph.D. in optics, I have read quite some books on optics and out of curiocity I bought this book, but I am not very pleased with it. First, it is difficult to read because of the old English language and structure. For native English speakers this carries perhaps not so much weight, but for me it did. Second, because it is a collection of Newton's works, it contains of course also many not-so-interesting discussions which you have to 'consume' before realising it was not so interesting.
What is nice though, is that the book contains many so-called queries, which are possible explanations of various optical phenomena, explanations/assumptions Newton could not prove/disprove at the time. This is fascinating reading, because many of these turned out to be true (or false, but even then: still interesting to know what he thought).
Overall impression: if you are interested in the history of optics/Newton then it is a nice book. But just for browsing in the evening: no.
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Title: The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman ISBN: 0520088174 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Great Minds Series) by Nicolaus Copernicus, Nicholas Copernicus, Charles G. Wallis ISBN: 1573920355 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Relativity : The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein ISBN: 0517884410 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 06 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Books 1 and 2 by Thomas L. Heath, Euclid ISBN: 0486600882 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Principia (Great Minds) by Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte ISBN: 0879759801 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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