All Was Light: An Introduction to Newton's Opticks

by A. Rupert Hall

Opticks, Newton's most popular book, is a complex work of genius and the fruit of forty years of thought and investigation. Newton devoted various periods of experimentation to this final expression of his life's work and drew on the results of successive interactions with other scientists and thinkers. This introduction to his book disentangles the different layers of Newton's thought processes in terms of his contemporary influences, and details...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019851798X
• ISBN13: 9780198517986
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"