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NEWTON (ISAAC) Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light, W. & J. Innys, 1718
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
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NEWTON (ISAAC)
Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light, second (first octavo) edition, second issue, 12 folding engraved plates (7 shaved at lower margin with loss to rule border, one touching image), advertisement leaf at end, note "distance" in an early hand in margin of p.366 (with word "height" underlined in text), spotting, contemporary calf-backed boards, worn, covers detached [Babson 134], 8vo, W. & J. Innys, 1718
Footnotes
The second issue of the second edition, with the plates newly engraved, "and the number of Queries at the end increased from 16 to 31, including the celebrated Query No. 28 on the nature of light" (Babson).