Newton, I. Optice: sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus et coloribus lucis, libri tres. Latine reddidit S. Clarke. Editio novissima. Lausanne & Genf, Bousquet, 1740. 4to (25:20 cm). Mit gest. Porträt, gest. Titelvignette u. 12 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. 2 Bll., XXXII, 363 S. Prgt. d. Zt. mit etwas Rvg., berieben u. fleckig. Babson 141; Wallis 182. - Dritte lateinische Ausgabe der erstmals 1704 in englischer Sprache erschienenen Studie. - Anfangs etwas gebräunt, später schwächer werdend; vereinzelte Stockflecken; Vorsatz mit gest. Wappen-Exlibris. Third Latin edition. With engr. portrait, title vignette and 12 folding engr. plates. "The core of his work was the observation that the spectrum of colours... is stretched along its axis, together with his experimental proof that rays of different colours are refracted to different extents. All previous philosophers and mathematicians had been sure that white light is pure and simple..." (PMM 172). - Some browning and spotting, stronger at beginning. Small abrasion to dedication, cutout to front fly-leaf. Bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt; somewhat rubbed, head and tail of spine chipped.
Newton, I. Optice: sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus et coloribus lucis, libri tres. Latine reddidit S. Clarke. Editio novissima. Lausanne & Genf, Bousquet, 1740. 4to (25:20 cm). Mit gest. Porträt, gest. Titelvignette u. 12 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. 2 Bll., XXXII, 363 S. Prgt. d. Zt. mit etwas Rvg., berieben u. fleckig. Babson 141; Wallis 182. - Dritte lateinische Ausgabe der erstmals 1704 in englischer Sprache erschienenen Studie. - Anfangs etwas gebräunt, später schwächer werdend; vereinzelte Stockflecken; Vorsatz mit gest. Wappen-Exlibris. Third Latin edition. With engr. portrait, title vignette and 12 folding engr. plates. "The core of his work was the observation that the spectrum of colours... is stretched along its axis, together with his experimental proof that rays of different colours are refracted to different extents. All previous philosophers and mathematicians had been sure that white light is pure and simple..." (PMM 172). - Some browning and spotting, stronger at beginning. Small abrasion to dedication, cutout to front fly-leaf. Bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt; somewhat rubbed, head and tail of spine chipped.
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