![]() ![]() Opticks is largely a record of experiments and the deductions made from them, covering a wide range of topics in what was later to be known as physical optics. The publication of Opticks represented a major contribution to science, different from but in some ways rivalling the Principia. ![]() The book 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. ![]() Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704. ![]()
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