Lot number 3995 - Auction
'OPTICE: SIVE DE REFLEXIONIBUS, REFRACTIONIBUS, INFLEXIONIBUS ET COLORIBUS LUCIS: LIBRI TRES'

ISSAC NEWTON 1643 Woolsthorpe Manor - 1727 Kensington, London 'OPTICE: SIVE DE REFLEXIONIBUS, REFRACTIONIBUS, INFLEXIONIBUS AND COLORIBUS LUCIS: LIBRI TRES' England, London, Gul. & John Innys, 1719 Bound in pigskin; Latin text; 11 pages numbered in Roman, 415 pages numbered in Arabic and 12 engraved plates. 24 x 18 x 4 cm. Slightly damaged, stained. 'Latin reddidit Samuel Clarke. Editio secunda, auctior Londini. Gul. & Joh. Innys Regiae 1719.' Isaac Newton was not only considered the leading mathematician of his time - from 1670 to 1672 he taught optics and held an inaugural lecture on his theory of colors, in which he particularly examined the refraction of light. He published his theories about light and colors in the major work 'Opticks or a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colors of light'.