OpticksIndependently Published, 2021 M01 17 - 130 pages My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms. DEFIN. I. By the Rays of Light I understand its least Parts, and those as well Successive in the same Lines, as Contemporary in several Lines. |
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Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ... Isaac Newton No preview available - 2018 |